{"id":11610,"date":"2013-05-03T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/gov-inslee-vows-to-fund-education-pitches-proposal\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T02:25:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T09:25:33","slug":"gov-inslee-vows-to-fund-education-pitches-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/gov-inslee-vows-to-fund-education-pitches-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Inslee vows to fund education, pitches proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Gov. Jay Inslee spoke to educators and administrators Thursday afternoon regarding his plan to fund education.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In front of a small crowd gathered outside the Highline Public Schools Transportation Facility in Burien, Inslee promoted his budget plan for schools.\u00a0&#8220;We need a different route,&#8221; he said at the news conference.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got some great educators in our state. But if we&#8217;re going to allow these great educators to do their job, we&#8217;ve got to fulfill our constitutional duty of fully funding education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Inslee&#8217;s budget proposal would put down a downpayment of more than $1 billion to fund state education by closing outdated tax loopholes. A special session in Olympia is scheduled for May 13 to address various state issues, including education funding.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;I will not compromise on our obligation to provide a quality education to every single one of our children,&#8221; Inslee told the audience.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Educators and superintendents from throughout the state attended the meeting, including Edward Lee Vargas, superintendent of the Kent School District.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Jay Inslee spoke to educators and administrators Thursday afternoon regarding his plan to fund education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":11611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11610"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}