Planning begins for Washington law offering new pathways to high school graduation
Washington students will soon be able to use workforce experience to graduate high school. At a State Board of Education meeting on Thursday, members began hammering out proposed rules to put House Bill 1308 into effect. The law, approved during this year’s legislative session, allows high school students to move toward graduation by completing a “performance-based learning experience,” such as professional skill-building, internships, or community service. Continue reading at WA State Standard. (Getty)
Opinion: To ease housing crisis, remove barriers to off-site construction
Builders across the country are rethinking how we construct homes to address the housing affordability and availability crisis that has left millions of average Americans struggling to purchase homes. Between 2017-22, national housing costs skyrocketed by 52%. Over the next 20 years, the Washington Department of Commerce estimates a need for 1.1 million new houses in the state. Off-site construction, also known as modular or prefabricated construction, offers a practical solution streamlining the building process and significantly reduces construction time, delivering projects 20% to 50% faster than traditional methods at a cost savings of up to 20%. Continue reading at Seattle Times. (NRB Modular Solutions)
Human rights group raises alarm about use of force, chemical weapons at Tacoma ICE center
In a new report, the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights has raised concerns about the use of force at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma and how those incidents are being reported. The data provided by ICE has been incomplete, said Angelina Godoy, director of the Center for Human Rights. Even when looking at the partial data, there are a lot of inconsistencies, she added. “If ICE’s own data is so poor and internally inconsistent, then we’re going to have real problems, for example, when we go to implement HB 1470, which mandates that the Department of Health do inspections and improve conditions at the facility,” she said. Continue reading at KUOW. (Megan Farmer)
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Opinion: To ease housing crisis, remove barriers to off-site construction
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WA State Standard
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