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Washington State Held In Contempt By Supreme Court So Just How Did That Happen??? The Washington State Supreme Court, in the McCleary case, ruled the Legislature has not met its obligation to “amply fund” K-12 education as required by our state constitution. The court gave the Legislature until 2018 to meet that obligation. It also required the Legislature to present a funding plan last April to demonstrate our commitment to meet that funding plan. In the Court’s view, a view I agree with, the Legislature has not met that requirement. The court questions our ability to reach the goal given the paltry increases in funding we have made so far. In 2013 the House Democrats passed a budget that provided an additional $1.4 billion for K-12 education. However the Senate Republicans did not agree and we had to settle for a budget that only raised an additional $980 million, about $300 million of which was from local levy monies raised by school districts to provide cost of living raises to teachers. That really means the Legislature really provided only $680 million, or about one half of what the House Democrats had proposed. In 2014 the House Democrats proposed a budget to add an additional $100 million for K-12 which included funds for teacher cost of living raises. Once again, the Senate Republicans would not agree and we were only able to provide about $50 million in additional funds. Is it any wonder the Supreme Court found us in contempt? So…2015 will be a watershed session. If we do not make significant progress toward the $4 billion of additional revenue K-12 needs, and Supreme Court is waiting to see, there is no telling what will happen. House Democrats believe we need to allocate $2.5 billion next session to demonstrate our commitment to meeting the Supreme Court mandate. It’s my hope we can work with our Republican colleagues and the Governor’s office to do just that. Stay tuned, we live in very challenging times. Let’s get at it. We can do this because we SHOULD! Larry Springer September 14, 2014

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