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Monday, August 27, 2012

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Stop Making (Non) Sense

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Stop Making (Non) Sense:


Stop Making (Non) Sense

The hot weather is gone so I can't imagine what it is affecting the brains of the editorial board at the Seattle Times.

Their latest editorial about the State starting negotiations with the Washington Federation of Sate Employees soon.

They give recent history:

Twice now they have done this. In September 2008, they agreed to pay raises in the two-year contract. In the midst of the worst financial crisis in 75 years, Gregoire approved them and within weeks the state's Office of Financial Management (OFM) said the contracts were impossible. The state had to go back and ask that the