McCleary decision

SEATTLE (AP) — The state's largest school district has announced it will accept state dollars for all day kindergarten and offer it free to all children starting in fall 2016. Seattle Public Schools also made plans to expand preschool options in district schools. Fou...

SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed a bill that sets out a plan for finishing the Legislature's work of reforming the way the state of Washington pays for K-12 education. The measure is the first bill the governor has signed this legislative session. It ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court shared some of the court's thinking behind its McCleary school finance ruling this week. Justice Barbara Madsen told TVW's Inside Olympia program the court made its 2012 McCleary decision in part because of what happened in 1977 after a similar case was decided. ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state Senate on Tuesday passed a plan for fixing the way the state pays for education, mirroring a measure passed earlier in the state House. Many lawmakers believe the bill will satisfy the Supreme Court's order to finish the work it demanded in its so-called McCleary decision. ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Senate Education Committee has passed an alternative plan for fixing the way Washington state pays for public schools. The bill contrasts with a similar measure passed in the House on Monday. It sets a different deadline for finishing the work ordered by the state Supreme Court in 2012 in its so-called McCleary decision. ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington House has passed a bill that would instruct the 2017 Legislature to finish fixing the way the state pays for public schools. The proposal, House Bill 2366, moves onto the Senate after a vote of 64-34 in favor. ...

  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A plan from Washington lawmakers that seeks to fix how the state pays for education was met with much criticism and some qualified support in a public hearing. Many denounced the plan at the hearing Monday for not saying how the Legislature will reduce overreliance on local school levies to pay for basic education, only making a commitment to try and solve the issue next ye