Gov. Jay Inslee has been talking to the Legislature's leaders about what to do in response to the $100,000 daily fine the Washington state Supreme Court slapped on the state last Thursday for not passing a plan to have K-12 education fully funded before the 2017-2018 school year. The governor is set to announce the results of the talks shortly.
Discussions for such a plan began in January of 2012, and have not made satisfactory progress in the ensuing three-and-a-half years; once a plan is reached the sanctions will be repaid. In a MyNorthwest piece, the man who ran against Inslee for governor, former Attorney General Rob McKenna, criticized the Legislature for increasing spending without making progress. “It’s like a student that gives you an answer but doesn’t show their work,” McKenna said. “The court insisted on a written plan showing how they would finish the job by 2018 and that homework has not been turned in yet.”
