Inslee on education funding: What governor has — and hasn’t — accomplished
When Jay Inslee ran for governor in 2012, he pledged a focus on creating high-tech and green jobs to revitalize the state’s economy, which could bring in tax revenue to boost education funding.
Looking back, it’s surprising the Washington state Supreme Court’s order on K-12 funding, the 2012 McCleary decision, didn’t seem more politically urgent. The court had just declared the state was violating its own constitution by not spending enough on basic public education — and still, the Democratic candidate for governor did not feel compelled to offer a comprehensive solution.
The Republican nominee, then-Attorney General Rob McKenna, stepped forward with a plan to change how state and local taxes pay for costs such as school-worker salaries. Inslee shot it down.
Since then, the issue of how to find the billions of dollars needed to resolve McCleary has only loomed larger in Olympia: The Supreme Court has remained so unsatisfied with the state’s progress on a full education-funding plan that, in unprecedented moves, justices in 2014 found the state in contempt, and later, ordered fines of $100,000 a day.
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Washington also surpassed a billion dollars in Cannabis sales where the state makes a large income on tax.
Yet toll roads and bridges are still being built, and school levies are getting out of control.
Also apparently there needs to be a state citizen movement to increase minimum wage to reflect cola changes that haven't been made in decades.
Out side of that, everything's copacetic.
