Washington state currently authorizes dozens of private schools and operates hundreds of its own public ones – including a growing number of online programs. What it doesn’t have yet is an officially recognized school that’s both online and private. The question is whether that’s because of an administrative discrepancy or an active desire to...
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Washington state students continue to show modest increases in their assessment test scores, State Superintendent Randy Dorn said today, but the change isn’t a drastic as was seen in previous years. “We started to see dramatic improvement about 15 years ago, when we first started taking these tests,” he said. “We starting to level...
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All told, Washington state has received $8.4 billion of the $768.3 billion in stimulus money doled out under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, according to the official U.S. government website that tracks the program, and the money has employed a total of 2,794 people. That works out to $2.86 million per job,...
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Thirteen Washington nonprofit organizations will split the $43.8 million the state received to fund foreclosure relief as part of the landmark $25 billion national settlement with the country’s five largest mortgage servicers announced in February. The agreement settles state and federal investigations finding that the country’s five largest loan servicers routinely signed foreclosure related...
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A Thurston County judge on Friday morning denied a legal challenge from Initiative 1185 author Tim Eyman to the state’s financial analysis of his latest ballot measure. Eyman, acting as his own attorney, last week requested a writ of mandamus against the state when it announced that a lengthy financial impact statement must appear...
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All told, Washington state has received $8.4 billion of the $768.3 billion in stimulus money doled out under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, according to the official U.S. government website that tracks the program, and the money has employed a total of 2,794 people. That works out to $2.86 million per job,...
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A Thurston County Superior Court judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit filed a week earlier that would have kept Mitt Romney’s name off the November general election ballot. According to leaders of the Washington State Libertarian Party, the Republican Party violated state election laws in 2008 by allowing the race between senatorial candidates...
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All told, Washington state has received $8.4 billion of the $768.3 billion in stimulus money doled out under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, according to the official U.S. government  website that tracks the program, and the money has employed a total of 2,794 people. That works out to $2.86 million per...
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In a news release distributed on Tuesday, the Washington State Department of Ecology is touting a new program it claims will save small businesses big money. The catch is, the dollars in question come in the form of environmental regulations enforced by the DOE in the first place. In this case, the agency is...
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The Washington State Libertarian Party, in a lawsuit filed on Thursday, claims the Republican Party is not a major player in this state and its presidential nominee, presumably Gov. Mitt Romney, does not deserve a spot on the November ballot. The suit, filed in Thurston County Superior Court, seeks an order declaring that the...
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