SEATTLE – Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn says the Legislature can find some of the money it needs to answer the Washington Supreme Court’s McCleary decision by transferring local level dollars into the state general fund.
Dorn made this suggestion on Tuesday at a news conference on his ideas for the state education budget.
His plan also calls for partially funding class-size reductions in all grades, but giving school districts until 2021 to complete the class-size reductions voters approved in November.
Dorn says the Legislature isn’t doing enough to make sure the state fully pays for basic education by the 2018 deadline set by the Washington Supreme Court.
Both the state Senate and House have proposed substantial down payments on the McCleary obligations in their budget proposals for the next biennium.