Outlook Estimates $5 Billion on Education Through 2021
OLYMPIA (AP) — The state Economic and Revenue Forecast Council has adopted a new budget outlook that includes an estimate that the state will spend more than $5 billion through 2021 to comply with a court order on education funding.
The outlook was adopted over the objections of Republican lawmakers on the council, who argued that a task force is still working to determine the actual amount that n