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What’s next for WA ‘Sunshine Committee’ with exits, legislative apathy

Mar. 15—OLYMPIA — Toby Nixon, a longtime government transparency advocate and former state legislator, has been tapped to lead a committee that has been toiling in relative futility to scrutinize the hundreds of exemptions to the state's public disclosure laws. Since Washington voters approved the state's public disclosure laws by ballot measure in 1972, legislators have passed hundreds of ...
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Dual language education is one step closer to becoming a WA law

Mar. 6—OLYMPIA — Aidé Villalobos starts her mornings by greeting third graders in Spanish as they walk into her classroom. Posters on the walls are in Spanish and English, helping students practice multiplication tables, read poems, sing songs and do science experiments in both languages. Dual language programs, like the one Villalobos teaches in rural Mason County, provide Washington's K-5 ...
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WA to train public defenders, prosecutors for rural, underserved areas

Mar. 6—Washington lawmakers took an initial step to buttress the state's beleaguered criminal legal system last week, passing a bill to help recruit and train more attorneys for crucial jobs in public defense and prosecution. Although attorney shortages and funding woes will likely continue to plague communities across Washington until broader solutions are brought to bear, Senate Bill 5780 ...