High court orders new hearing in McCleary school-funding case
Washington’s highest court wants to hear more from the state’s attorneys about how the Legislature plans to fully fund schools by 2018 — including how much the fix will cost.
The state Supreme Court issued an order Thursday setting a new date for oral arguments in the McCleary case, in which the court ruled four years ago that the state was failing to fully fund basic education.
At the Sept. 7 hearing, the court wants the McCleary plaintiffs and the state to explain what steps the Legislature has taken to solve school-funding problems, and what remains to be done. Significantly, the court also wants to know how much it will cost to resolve the remaining funding issues, and how the state intends to pay.
Those topics are ones state lawmakers dodged earlier this year when they created a task force to study school-funding issues further, while promising to solve it all next year.
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