Cheney Schools tasks state to fully fund education

The Cheney School board approved, 4-0, a resolution that requests state legislators fully comply with the Supreme Court’s orders in the McCleary case. Director James Whiteley was absent.

The resolution requests the state to comply with the Supreme Court’s orders, which include amply funding the cost of K-12 education by no later than the 2017-18 school year. Last year the Supreme Court found the Legislature in contempt of court for its repeated failure to produce an ample funding plan and imposed a $100,000 a day sanction on the state until they produce the plan.

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