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  • Wash. voters pass $2.6 billion in taxes for education

    Frank Ordway|Mar 7, 2012

    Voters overwhelmingly supported their local schools and voted for $2.6 billion in taxes to support education. You may have read reports about levies in a particular district or county, but there was precious little attention paid to what happened all across the state. What happened was that voters overwhelmingly supported their local schools and voted for $2.6 billion in taxes to support education. Out of 295 school districts, 157 went to their local communities seeking support to the tune of over $2.7 billion dollars in property taxes. Out of...