Post by Logan on Jun 7, 2016 19:19:15 GMT -6
SEATTLE — The plaintiffs who sued the state over the way Washington pays for K-12 schools say in their annual filing with the Supreme Court that it’s time to enforce the Constitution.
In a brief filed Tuesday afternoon in connection with the court’s ruling in 2012 that lawmakers weren’t meeting their constitutional responsibility to fully fund basic education, the plaintiffs criticize the Legislature for its lack of progress. The ruling is known as the McCleary decision.
The attorney representing the coalition of school districts, teachers, parents and community groups that sued the state over education funding reminded the court that Carter McCleary was 7 years old and in second grade when the lawsuit named for his family was filed. Thomas Ahearne said the youngest McCleary sibling will be in the last semester of his senior year in high school when the 2017 Legislature convenes.
“Most high school juniors and seniors in Washington would have a crisp, two-word response to the state’s claim that it has produced the progress and plan the court has long ordered: ‘Dude! Seriously?’,” Ahearne wrote in the brief.
Read more: www.columbian.com/news/2016/jun/07/school-lawsuit-plaintiffs-to-court-enforce-the-constitution/
In a brief filed Tuesday afternoon in connection with the court’s ruling in 2012 that lawmakers weren’t meeting their constitutional responsibility to fully fund basic education, the plaintiffs criticize the Legislature for its lack of progress. The ruling is known as the McCleary decision.
The attorney representing the coalition of school districts, teachers, parents and community groups that sued the state over education funding reminded the court that Carter McCleary was 7 years old and in second grade when the lawsuit named for his family was filed. Thomas Ahearne said the youngest McCleary sibling will be in the last semester of his senior year in high school when the 2017 Legislature convenes.
“Most high school juniors and seniors in Washington would have a crisp, two-word response to the state’s claim that it has produced the progress and plan the court has long ordered: ‘Dude! Seriously?’,” Ahearne wrote in the brief.
Read more: www.columbian.com/news/2016/jun/07/school-lawsuit-plaintiffs-to-court-enforce-the-constitution/