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School funding heads higher Education spending in several proposed bills won’t be enough to satisfy the court, but it’s just the beginning, lawmakers say. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
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OSO MUDSLIDE | GEOLOGY
THE TALE TOLD BY THE LAND
OLYMPIA — A stream of bills flowing through the state House and Senate would pour several hundred million more dollars into educating children in Washington. But little, if any, of that proposed spending would bring the state closer to fully funding public schools, as required by the McCleary state Supreme Court decision. Lawmakers aren’t sweating it too much — not yet, anyway — because state tax revenue is expected to increase in coming years after years-long recession. They know that satisfying See EDUCATION, Page A11
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TOO EXPENSIVE?
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Scientists attending a geology conference at the University of Washington visit the Oso slide site last month. Dale Topham (with megaphone), supervisor of Snohomish County’s geotechnical group, details the county’s response to the slide for the visiting scientists.
There’s still much to learn from the deadly disaster
Some tips for cutting your mobile phone costs.
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By Chris Winters, Herald Writer
Success, A12
Celebrations . .A5 Classified . . . . E3
OSO — Before the hillside above the Steelhead Haven neighborhood collapsed, killing 43 people, it was known as a site of periodic slides that did little more than divert the North Fork Stillaguamish River. In the year since, scientists have been trying to understand why a slope that behaved one way for much of recorded history suddenly turned into a massive and deadly mudslide on March 22, 2014.
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