Schoesler says passage of early-action school-construction bill reflects coalition’s

OLYMPIA. Sen. Mark Schoesler said the jobs-education-budget focus of the Senate Majority Coalition Caucus is exemplified by a school-construction funding bill passed unanimously by the Senate Monday.

Typically money for school construction is part of the capital budget, which lawmakers don’t tend to adopt until late in a legislative session.

Schoesler, R-Ritzville, said Senate Bill 5445 would make that money available much sooner, placing $475 million from bond sales into the state school-construction account as soon as the measure is passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor. That...