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Back to school, and the first lesson is that more money did not buy better results.
Our family has been lucky enough to have some really great teachers in the Auburn School District. They work hard, they care about kids, and they deserve to be paid well.
But something isn’t working in our public schools.
A little more than 10 years ago, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled in the McCleary decision that the state wasn’t adequately funding education. So lawmakers opened the floodgates .
Based on the state’s two-year (biennial) budget, Washington now spends about $17 billion more per biennium on public schools than before McCleary: roughly $8.5 billion more per year on average. That combines state and local district dollars and brings the total K –12 education budget to about $30
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