To: Governor Jay Inslee
Higher Education Reform
It is time for our state, Washington state, to pass a Pay-It-Forward bill, similar to the one that passed this year in Oregon with unanimous bipartisan support.
Why is this important?
Our sister state, Oregon, has beaten us when it comes to higher education reform. In fact, as the Seattle Times reported in June, “[Washington State] has cut funding to colleges and universities by about 50 percent since 2009, and Washington now ranks near the bottom in funding per student among all the states.”