Everett Daily Herald, January 10, 2016

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New medical school aims to teach students in towns around the state, which should make it easier to recruit doctors outside of Seattle. By Jim Davis The Herald Business Journal

EVERETT — In the not-toodistant future, you may be saying ‘Aaaahh’ to a doctor in training. Washington State University plans to teach medical students in Everett after it launches its new medical school. The idea is that students will spend the first two years of medical school in classroom work in Spokane, but then get their clinical experience and more classroom work either by remaining in Spokane or studying in Everett, the Tri-Cities or Vancouver. WSU already has reached agreements with Providence Regional Medical Center Everett and The Everett Clinic to help teach the medical students. See TRAINING, Page A6

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Teacher Randy Ayers talks about the U.S. national debt to his senior students in a government class at Everett High School on Thursday.

Full speed ahead for new session

School funding, inmate release glitch, charter school law among the challenges facing lawmakers

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OLYMPIA — A new legislative session gets underway Monday with public school funding poised to once again garner much of state lawmakers’ attention. But it won’t be the only flashpoint. Anger at the mistaken early release of convicted criminals, frustration with a legal threat to charter schools and concerns about the budget impacts of a carbon tax initiative will incite debate, and maybe action. The 60-day session promises a hectic pace. Ending on time will be an unspoken goal of lawmakers who in 2015 labored through three extra sessions into July before finishing. “Everyone is coming in with a commitment to get things done in 60 days,” said Rep. Norma Smith, R-Clinton. “It is a short session. There is no reason for us to stay late.” Rep. Hans Dunshee, D-Snohomish, will be a key figure as chairman of the House

Appropriations Committee. In this job, he’ll craft the supplemental budget proposal for the majority House Democrats. “There will be a lot of energy about getting something done and we’ll end up doing a lot of little stuff,” he said. “Most people are saying let’s just cobble together a budget and get out of here.” Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate each arrive with a relatively short list of matters they said need addressing in the 60-day session. Among them are: ■ Agreeing on a path to fully fund public schools by the 2018 deadline set by the state Supreme Court in the McCleary case. A bipartisan work group released a bill Friday intended to be the vehicle. It sets up a task force to gather data on how each school district spends its local levy dollars and what are each district’s need in terms of new classrooms and schools. It vows that by the end of the

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2017 session, lawmakers will act to relieve districts of their reliance on local levies to pay salaries. ■ Adopting a supplemental budget that covers costs of fighting last summer’s wildfires and enables the state to comply with a federal court mandate to reduce wait times for evaluating mentally ill offenders locked up in county jails. ■ Amending the voter-approved charter school law to solve constitutional problems cited by the state Supreme Court. Bills with bipartisan support will be introduced to make fixes and assure existing schools continue operating. ■ Requiring that the Department of Corrections adopt redundant procedures for determining prison sentences to prevent a recurrence of inmates getting mistakenly released early due to a software error. There are a number of other simmering issues. Voters passed Initiative 1366 in November but lawmakers will likely ignore it until a legal challenge to the measure is resolved. Under I-1366, the state portion of the sales tax will drop by a penny in April unless lawmakers put a constitutional See SESSION, Page A5

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