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  OLYMPIA -- Lawmakers proposed zero cuts to higher education in their budget proposal from the Senate Committee on Ways and Means released Tuesday.

  Compared with the House budget proposed last week, which would cut $65 million to higher education and $10 million to the State Need Grant, the Senate proposal has higher education supporters hopeful.

  Chris Mulick, director of state relations for Washington State University, said WSU would have taken a $9.3 million, or 3 percent, hit under the House proposal adding to a more than 50 percent reduction in state funding to WSU in the past four years.

• LEGISLATURE: Senate budget has no higher ed cuts

  LEGISLATURE: Senate budget has no higher ed cuts

  OLYMPIA -- Lawmakers proposed zero cuts to higher education in their budget proposal from the Senate Committee on Ways and Means released Tuesday.

  Compared to the House budget proposed last week, which would cut $65 million to higher education and $10 million to the State Need Grant, the Senate proposal has higher education supporters feeling hopeful.

  “When you consider everything else we’ve been dealing with over the past four years, this is a real game changer for higher education," said Chris Mulick, director of state relations for Washington State University.

• LEGISLATURE: Capital-gains tax proposal introduced

  LEGISLATURE: Capital-gains tax proposal introduced

  State Rep. Laurie Jinkins of Tacoma has introduced a capital-gains tax proposal to help fix a state budget problem now measuring about $1.5 billion.

  Jinkins, a Democrat, said a 5 percent tax on realized capital gains could raise $215 million to $650 million a year for education, health care and universities.

  The tax would piggyback on federal returns, and its amount would vary with the economy's health.

• State House Democrats' budget proposal boosts WSU engineering program

  State House Democrats' budget proposal boosts WSU engineering program

  OLYMPIA -- The House Democrats' supplemental budget proposal could pay for new engineering faculty at Washington State University.

  All of WSU's engineering programs would receive $3.8 million from the state under the plan announced this week.

  And some of that money could help Tri-City students.

• 258 at Evergreen State College dodge state pay cuts

  258 at Evergreen State College dodge state pay cuts

  Nearly 260 union-represented staffers at The Evergreen State College are avoiding 3 percent pay cuts July 1, reversing an agreement the Washington Federation of State Employees and college had reached previously in a one-year contract.