Legislature must fix common school funding sources

The Washington State School Directors’ Association recently made available its proposed legislative priorities for the 2015 legislative session. Delegates to the 2014 Legislative Assembly approved 45 new proposals, added 16 new proposals to WSSDA’s “Standing Legislative Positions” (SLPs) and amended three other SLPs.

Delegates then ranked them, with the top three being: 1) Full funding of basic education (SLP), 2) Sustainable revenues for education funding (new) and 3) School construction funding (SLP).

Washington is unique in that our constitution makes it the state’s paramount duty to provid...