
(The Center Square) – The Washington Association of School Administrators launched a new website last month that makes the case for increased state spending on K‑12 education, even as the state’s public schools now spend $19,000 on average statewide for the education of each student, a dramatic rise over the pre-McCleary level of $10,000 per student.
The state Supreme Court’s January 2012 McCleary decision ordered the state to fully fund K‑12 public schools as required by Article IX of the Washington State Constitution.
According to the new website, waschoolfunding.org, Was …