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Highlights of Gov. Gregoire's budget
Public schools
Eliminate K-4 class-size reduction funds — $216 million
Suspend Initiative 728, which provides money to reduce class sizes — $860.2
million
Suspend Initiative 732, which provides cost-of-living increases for teachers
— $253.3 million
Suspend planned increases in all-day kindergarten — $57 million
Suspend annual bonuses for National Board certified teachers — $99.5
million
Suspend annual step increases for teachers — $56.3 million
Eliminate gifted-student program — $18.6 million
Higher education
Increase tuition to offset a $344.7 million cut at state colleges and
universities
Further reduce state higher-ed funding by an average of 4.2 percent — $102.
2 million
Suspend yearly pay increases under Initiative 732 for community-college
employees — $27.1 million
Reduce state Work Study program to serve 2,800 fewer students — $20.8
million
Social services
Eliminate Basic Health Plan, a subsidized insurance program for the 66,000
poorer residents — $230.2 million
Eliminate Disability Lifeline, which provides health-care and cash grants to
the unemployable disabled — $327.3 million
Eliminate Children's Health Program, which serves 27,000 children who could
be in the country illegally — $59 million
Reduce in-home personal-care services for people on Medicaid — $97.5
million
Reduce nonemergency dental and maternity care for Medicaid patients — $48.2
million
Eliminate State Food Assistance Program — $45.6 million
Public safety
Reduce Department of Corrections staff and programs — $51.6 million
Close McNeil Island Corrections Center — $17.6 million
Close Maple Lane School, a juvenile-offender center in Rochester, Thurston
County — $3.3 million
Eliminate State Patrol Auto Theft Task Force — $3.6 million
Reduce parole services for juvenile offenders — $5 million
Deport all noncitizen drug and property offenders now incarcerated — $2.5
million
Washington State Ferries
Increase fares by 10 percent
Reduce average daily sailings from 505 to 477
Cut administrative and operations support — $2.8 million
Other cuts
Suspend 2012 presidential primary — $10 million
Close state historical museums in Tacoma and Spokane, and eliminate
education and outreach programs — $5.2 million
Cut all state funding for State Tourism Office — $4 million
Eliminate State Arts Commission — $2.5 million |
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