Superintendent of Public Education files brief with Supreme Court - gives legislature one more session to fund education

State Superintendent of Public Education Randy Dorn filed a brief with the state Supreme Court on Monday. “The Legislature passed a plan to fully fund education,” Dorn says. “Now they need to fund it.”

The essence of the brief:

"The state Legislature and the Governor should be given the 2015 session to make substantial progress on fully funding basic education. If that doesn’t happen, the Court should make clear that there will be certain consequences, including, if necessary, a requirement that the State be barred from funding non-education elements of the budget." 

The brief concerns McCleary v. State of Washington, a January 2012 decision by the state Supreme Court that determined the state isn’t meeting its constitutional duty to fully fund basic education. 

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