What's next for Washington's education lawsuit

The new state budget makes a $1.3 billion down payment toward fully paying the cost of basic education in Washington. But even the lawmakers who crafted the budget do not expect the Supreme Court to be satisfied with their progress toward fulfilling the court's order on dollars for K-12 schools.

The court is expected to grade their efforts sometime in the next weeks or months.

The justices will decide whether to issue sanctions to go with last fall's contempt order over the Legislature's lack of progress toward answering the 2012 McCleary decision on public education funding.

Lawmakers are meeting Thursday in Bellevue to discuss what to say in their formal report to the court, which is due July 27.

The plaintiffs in the school funding lawsuit will file their own analysis of legislative progress. Then the court will decide whether sanctions are warranted.