EWU community speaks out about budget cuts, 'no confidence' vote
Some Eastern Washington University staff and students are speaking out, concerned about the university's future and leadership as it faces a financial downturn.
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'It's very painful, it's very difficult': SCC & SFCC to furlough staff, cut $11 million from budget
More budget cuts are coming. This time, to the Community Colleges of Spokane. It's bracing itself for one of its biggest cuts in its history.
Spokane School Board to consider declaring financial emergency in the wake of COVID-19
The Spokane School Board is meeting Wednesday to discuss a possible financial emergency declaration, anticipating budget cuts following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Spokane Public Schools looks at bringing back school specialists following massive budget cuts, layoffs
A Spokane Public Schools work group is looking at the possibility of bringing school specialists, like librarians, back into the fold, despite making cuts away from the classroom and issuing hundreds of layoff notices last year due to a $31 million budget gap.
Trump administration proposal could cut free or reduced lunch for local students
For a lot of kids in school, lunchtime is the best time. Not only for the break, but because that meal may be the only one they're sure to get each day.
EWU facing another $3.5 million budget cut
Another blow for Eastern Washington University as it prepares for a second round of budget cuts.
McConnell vows to help Kentucky school delayed by wall funding shift
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would defend funding for a new middle school in his home state of Kentucky after it was selected as one of the military projects the Trump administration will delay in order to fund border wall construction.
Central Valley School District bracing for $12 million budget shortfall
Similar to other Eastern Washington school districts, the Central Valley School District is expecting to face a budget deficit in the upcoming school year.
Parents and students devastated over news Riverpoint Academy will close
Families of students who attend Riverpoint Academy say they are devastated over the news that the school will close this fall.
Teacher layoffs are just the start of budget cut impacts on Spokane schools
Teachers are changing and so are a lot of other things at local schools.
Nearly 70 jobs at risk under Mead School District budget cut proposal
Layoff fears are spreading throughout the Mead School District which is facing a $12 million budget gap.
DeVos reverses course on Special Olympics cuts after Trump orders funding
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spent three days defending her plan to eliminate Special Olympics funding from next year's budget.
State Department employees hire attorneys, charging 'political retribution'
A growing number of State Department employees are charging they are being put in career purgatory because of their previous work on policy priorities associated with President Barack Obama and in offices the Trump administration is interested in closing.
Tillerson hits back at critics
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hit back at critics, including lawmakers, who charge that he is hollowing out America's oldest government agency and undermining diplomacy at a time of deepening international crises.
Hillary Clinton hits Trump's budget cuts to libraries, arts
Hillary Clinton told librarians Tuesday that they are on the front lines of "the fight to defend truth and reason, evidence and fact."
Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan has an obstacle: His budget cuts
President Trump says he's creating a $1 trillion plan to rebuild America's roads, bridges and runways.
Why Chicago parents fear after-school program cuts
President Donald Trump's budget would slash funding for after-school programs, leaving families in a Chicago neighborhood in fear.
Trump adviser defends sweeping cuts to social, environmental programs
Donald Trump's top budget adviser defended the sweeping cuts proposed to social, foreign aid and environmental programs in the President's budget on Tuesday, arguing that the White House could no longer ask taxpayers for money to fund programs they believe to be inefficient.
Budget cuts could force cutbacks at CHAS
Newly proposed budget cuts coming out of Olympia could affect more than 40,000 people in Spokane County who received care at community health clinics.
