The state does fund basic education! This current renewal levy is for all the extras: School safety and security, athletics, arts, and extracurricular activities, health services, of which are ...

In 2012, in the landmark case known as McCleary ... funding is distributed in Washington using two key guidelines. First, there is a cap on the percentage of a school district’s student ...

Washington, despite its comparative wealth ... But here’s the rub: The McCleary school funding plan of 2017 capped the amount schools are allowed to request of their home communities in levies.

The Washington State Constitution has decided that the state provides ample education for all students in the state public school system. McCleary v State Supreme Court of Washington decision in 2012.

Washington, despite its comparative wealth ... But here’s the rub: The McCleary school funding plan of 2017 capped the amount schools are allowed to request of their home communities in levies.

The requests from school boards include a variety of bonds ... In 2012, the state Supreme Court ruled in McCleary v. Washington that the Legislature was not living up to its constitutionally ...

City councils in and around Grays Harbor County have been busy in recent weeks trying to solve issues important to their constituents and develop and promote attractions in their municipalities.

Dick Rylander & Larry Roe discuss Washington’s constitutional duty to fully fund K-12 education and the ongoing challenges in meeting that requirement.

Lawmakers have begun another hard conversation on what it may cost the state to amply fund basic education in public schools as required by Washington’s constitution.