Charter schools mostly win

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Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>A King County Superior Court judge's ruling generally upholds the voter-approved charter school law against challenges from the teachers union and other plaintiffs, according to the Attorney General's office. Even though Judge Jean Rietschel's opinion finds that charter schools can't be considered</p></h2>
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            <p>A King County Superior Court judge's ruling generally upholds the voter-approved charter school law against challenges from the teachers union and other plaintiffs, according to the Attorney General's office. Even though Judge Jean Rietschel's opinion finds that charter schools can't be considered part of the "common schools" system — i.e. public schools — and are therefore ineligible for some state funds, the <a href="http://www-dev.atg.wa.gov/uploadedFiles/Home/About_the_Office/Cases/charter%20schools%20opinion.pdf?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">rest of her decision</a> upholds the charter measure (Initiative 1240). The AG says the common schools problem doesn't invalidate the rest of the law. A spokesman for the Washington Education Association said an appeal is likely.</p>
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A King County Superior Court judge's ruling generally upholds the voter-approved charter school law against challenges from the teachers union and other plaintiffs, according to the Attorney General's office. Even though Judge Jean Rietschel's opinion finds that charter schools can't be considered part of the "common schools" system — i.e. public schools — and are therefore ineligible for some state funds, the rest of her decision upholds the charter measure (Initiative 1240). The AG says the common schools problem doesn't invalidate the rest of the law. A spokesman for the Washington Education Association said an appeal is likely.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi