As the McCleary Supreme Court decision guarantees funding for education wouldn't the lost $2.7 million ultimately be replaced the state guarantee of funding? Maybe a reader of Jolt knows.
Talk about a distortion of values. Deforestation is now implicated in climate change. Are we so messed up that in an effort to provide for our childrens' educational future we endanger their future survival and well-being?
An ancient law for school funding dating back to 1889 had a different ecological context and we seem to have learned nothing since then to inform our policies. This is a special kind of business-as-usual variety of stupid.
This $2,800,000 is 0.01% (one-hundreth of one percent) of the $32,921,139,000 K-12 state budget for the 2021-23 budget period. Is this really necessary?
Maybe we should take up a collection in our schools, similar to a PTA fund drive to save the trees for our children?
Maybe Inslee could raise the visibility of this issue?
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