With classroom behavior notably worse than it was prior to the pandemic, a number of states are increasing penalties to address aggression and disruption.
Rent increases will be limited to 10 percent per year, with an exemption for newly built units for a dozen years.
Legislators have agreed to a plan to lift the cap and want to spend $870 million more on special education programs.
Shortages are so bad in some counties that defendants have had to be released because they can’t be tried in a timely manner.
Despite spending $31 million, the project has yet to roll out any new technology and is at least $240 million and nine years from completion.
The Washington state district didn’t just make students put phones away. They increased field trips and extracurricular activities, bringing chronic absenteeism down among participants by 13 percent.
The state faces a severe shortfall, but a proposed package would raise or shift $1 billion in taxes to secure funding for various projects.
A new forecast anticipates the state seeing nearly $1 billion less in revenue than projected as recently as November, bringing the expected four-year shortfall to $15 billion.
Trust in local government has declined in recent years. Liberty Lake, Wash., has found ways to assure residents their voices will be heard.
A 2022 law gave staff the ability to unionize. Their new contract will provide a raise of 3 percent in July and additional workplace protections.
When Democrat Jay Inslee took office in 2013, the state’s two-year budget was $38.4 billion. Now, as he prepares to leave, he’s released a $78.8 billion spending plan.
Participation for Washingtonians 18-24 dropped 8.5 points from the 2020 election, but improved compared to 2016.
Arizona is the only state to require all jurisdictions to livestream ballot processing, but there are other places to watch.
Once considered a conservative stronghold, new boundaries extending into King and Snohomish counties are altering the political landscape.
The November election could boost Native representation in the state’s legislature.
Spokane, Wash., Public Schools banned students from using their phones in class at the start of this school year. Teachers have found the new policy to be a “nonissue” that has resulted in better engagement, even when phones are allowed.
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