Post by Logan on Jan 29, 2016 5:19:27 GMT -6
Democratic legislators cry foul over McCleary funding plan
OLYMPIA — Saying the GOP has badly weakened a strategy to tackle the state Supreme Court’s education-funding order, Democratic legislators cried foul Thursday about an amended K-12 plan approved by a Senate committee.
The acrimony came over the modest plan-for-a-plan lawmakers put together this year to address the court’s contempt order for not fully satisfying its 2012 McCleary ruling. Changes made to the plan Thursday included language that pushed back the date for lawmakers to finish part of their work by a year, to 2018.
Since August, the court has imposed fines of $100,000 per day for lawmakers’ failure to provide a full funding plan for the McCleary decision, which said legislators were underfunding the state’s public schools.
But in a Senate Early Learning and K-12 Education Committee, Democrats decried changes made and then approved along party lines by Republican senators to the plan that had emerged from a bipartisan work group convened by Gov. Jay Inslee.
Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/democratic-legislators-cry-foul-over-mccleary-funding-plan/
OLYMPIA — Saying the GOP has badly weakened a strategy to tackle the state Supreme Court’s education-funding order, Democratic legislators cried foul Thursday about an amended K-12 plan approved by a Senate committee.
The acrimony came over the modest plan-for-a-plan lawmakers put together this year to address the court’s contempt order for not fully satisfying its 2012 McCleary ruling. Changes made to the plan Thursday included language that pushed back the date for lawmakers to finish part of their work by a year, to 2018.
Since August, the court has imposed fines of $100,000 per day for lawmakers’ failure to provide a full funding plan for the McCleary decision, which said legislators were underfunding the state’s public schools.
But in a Senate Early Learning and K-12 Education Committee, Democrats decried changes made and then approved along party lines by Republican senators to the plan that had emerged from a bipartisan work group convened by Gov. Jay Inslee.
Read more: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/democratic-legislators-cry-foul-over-mccleary-funding-plan/