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Alan Nolan

Alan Nolan

Retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, Mead School Board director (District 2), and Republican candidate for Washington State Representative in the 6th Legislative District; co-owner of Spokane design-build firm 509 Design.

Sep 7, 2026

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Okay.
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And you can collect your, your...
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It's, it's, it's like a...
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What would you call it? It's like a template comic that you collect in the shop.
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You go off, it's got six panels in it.
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You come up with your own comic, your own comic characters.
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You draw it all out, you letter it, you bring it back to the shop, and then that's gonna be judged.
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British readers as well.
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Yeah
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... where again, we just haven't spent, the district has not spent money on that in a really long time.
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And honestly, too, there's probably maybe a little bit of a shift in terms of how we spend some of our, uh, support resources.
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And we're talking about, uh, you know, our goal, our focus is on educational outcomes and trying to figure out where do we get the most bang for the buck.
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And a lot of that is really helping the kids at the earlier years develop those core skills so that on down the line, they continue to excel and, and do a better j- job in their classroom as opposed to trying to catch somebody up later on.
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And one of the goals I've, I've talked to my superintendent about, and this is...
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They're a little...

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It's just like what are you, what are you seeing or feeling? Or when you start looking at this stuff, what do you think the answer is to kinda bring that back a little bit?
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Yeah, I
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don't want to dive into that.
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But another one that's really important is the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit.
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This was passed in the most recent election.
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budget, the one big beautiful bill.
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And the short story on that is that, you know, what if you as a citizen were able to say, I want to take some of my federal tax money, money that I'm spending no matter what, and I want to dedicate that towards education, education where I want it to be, you know, how I want it spent.
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That's actually possible in 2027 based on the federal scholarship tax credit.

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How are you going to navigate that minefield, as it
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I don't want to
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dive into that.
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But another one that's really important is the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit.
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This was passed in the most recent election.
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the one big beautiful bill.
24:08
And the short story on that is that what if you as a citizen were able to say, I want to take some of my federal tax money, money that I'm spending no matter what, and I want to dedicate that towards education, education where I want it to be, how I want it spent.
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that's actually possible in 2027 based on the federal scholarship tax credit what it allows is for individuals to make a 1700 donation to what's called a scholarship granting organization that scholarship granting organization can then provide scholarships now typically when we think scholarship we're thinking about an individual but it doesn't have to be it could be two a public school.

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How are you going to navigate that minefield, as it were?

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