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  • Lottery Funds Could Be the Ticket for New Classrooms

    Elliot Suhr, WNPA News Service|Mar 13, 2014

    From Safeco Stadium to the Qwest Field and Exhibition Center in Seattle, lottery revenue has been the winning ticket for various cash-starved state accounts. A proposal in the Legislature would turn lottery proceeds into new classrooms across Washing­ton State. In 2000, voters approved Initiative 728, a measure that directed lottery revenue from the state general fund for K-12 education, includ­ing class-size reduction. However in 2009, funds were reallocated into the the state general fund for the 2009-2011 biennium to cover a projected b...

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