Mysteries remain in K-12 funding

By PAUL DELANEY

Staff Reporter

Medical Lake School Superintendent Tim Ames might still remember those days.

It’s Christmas morning and the wrapping comes off that enormous gift. There is all kind of excitement until it is discovered that the “some assembly required,” item not only failed to be stocked with batteries, but no instructions to boot.

The new version of that present arrived in the form of the Washington State Legislature’s budget, which was painstakingly delivered in the final minutes of the fiscal year on June 30. It took a 120-day regular session, plus three overtimes to wrap up t...