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State Supreme Court gives Legislature more time to work on education funding

Published  April 30, 2015 6:31pm PDT
Associated Press



SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court told the Legislature on Thursday it should keep working on its education plan.

The court said it would not be issuing any sanctions related to the court's contempt order on education funding until after the special session that began Wednesday.

The state attorney general asked the high court on Monday to give the Legislature more time to finish its work -- and the court did that on Thursday.

The court ruled in September that the state was in contempt for failing to submit a complete plan for implementing its response to the 2012 McCleary decision that ordered the state to fix the way it pays for public schools.

The court gave the state until the end of the 2015 legislative session to finish its work before it would reconvene to consider whether sanctions were necessary.

The court has now extended that deadline until after the special session or after the governor acts on the state budget or the last McCleary-related bill passed by the Legislature.