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next year’s session in midspring. Full state funding of K-12 education — eliminating the need for local school districts to seek maintenance-and-operations levies from property taxpayers to make up the difference between partial state funding and actual costs — is the goal of the high court’s 2012 McCleary, et al. v. State of Washington ruling.
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Amielia Berenthaupt, a Port Townsend High School sophomore, is the first of 20 students to disembark from the Adventuress after a two-day field trip.
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PORT TOWNSEND — The first field trip for the Port Townsend School District’s new Maritime Discovery Initiative ended Thursday when 20 stu-
dents completed a two-day tour on the schooner Adventuress. “It was really fun, said Alana Fiske, a Port Townsend High School senior. “My sail hoisting skills really improved toward the end of the trip compared with the beginning.” The class, called “Maritime Studies,” includes students from all four high-school grades and is intended to expose students to opportunities in the maritime
trades and how they can be accomplished, said Sarah Rubenstein, the initiative’s program manager. “We want to expose the students to the maritime industry and show them firsthand what kinds of jobs are available,” Rubenstein said. The topics of the course include marine trade skills as well as vessel operations and safety. TURN
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Attacks commemorated 9/11 anniversary gathering held in Chimacum BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CHIMACUM — The 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was commemorated Thursday at the Chimacum Schools campus with a ceremony that recognized the importance of emergency workers. “After the attacks, first responders were drawn to Ground Zero with no concern for their own safety,” said Naval Magazine Indian Island Cmdr.
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Chimacum Middle School student Dawson Paden tries on a fireman’s hat Thursday with firefighter Matt Millich of Naval Magazine Indian Island. Michael Yesunas during the cer- Jefferson County, how they are so efficient and truly work together emony. “This is something we also see as one.” TURN TO CHIMACUM/A7 in our local first responders in
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OLYMPIA — The state Supreme Court is holding the Legislature in contempt for lawmakers’ lack of progress on fixing the way the state pays for public education. The unusual action is in response to legislative delay in court-ordered full funding of kindergarten-through-12th-grade education in Washington public Lawmakers fined? schools, as ruled in the Supreme Court’s McCleary decision two Possible sanctions include fines for the Legislature or indiyears ago. vidual lawmakers, having the Local lead plaintiff court rewrite the state budget and revoking tax exemptions. A lead plaintiff in the suit is Gov. Jay Inslee said no one Stephanie McCleary, an adminis- should be surprised by the court’s trative secretary for Chimacum order. School District Superintendent “I urged lawmakers to act this Rich Stewart. She is a native of year and agreed with the court Sequim. that we must do more to adeIn its order issued Thursday, quately fund education, which I the Supreme Court promised to believe is both a constitutional reconvene and impose sanctions and moral obligation,” Inslee and other remedial measures if said. lawmakers do not make plans to TURN TO COURT/A6 solve the problem by the end of
Pierce hearing set to resume Monday BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ORCHARD — A hearing on a motion that could result in the freedom of a man once convicted of two murders will resume Monday after witness testimony was not finished Thursday. If the motion for the dismissal of charges against Michael J. Pierce, 38, is granted, the Quilcene man could be freed four years after he was convicted of the 2009 murders of Pat and Janice Yarr of Quilcene and sentenced to life in prison. “In the five years since our parents were taken from us, it feels that we’ve suffered at the hands of the legal system,” said Michelle Hamm, one of the Yarrs’ two daughters, after the Kitsap County Superior Court hearing was halted for the day. “We hold out the hope that he
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will be convicted of this crime and are terrified that he could be returned to society.” Superior Court Judge Sally Olsen said the hear- Pierce ing would resume at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the court, 614 Division St. in Port Orchard.
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