WA State Supreme Court Fines Legislature over McCleary
Update: KPLU's story.
Kyle Stokes of KPLU is reporting that the Washington State Supreme Court is fining the Legislature $100,000 a day for not fulfilling McCleary. This from a tweet; more details to come.
Update: He says that the $100k a day fine will go into an account for public education needs.
Further, the Court is urging Governor Inslee to reconvene the Legislature in yet another Special Session.
Stokes reports Court as saying, "further promises but no concrete plans."
The News Tribune is tweeting that by the time the Legislature would reconvene at its regular schedule in 2016, the fines would be at $3M.
Kyle Stokes of KPLU is reporting that the Washington State Supreme Court is fining the Legislature $100,000 a day for not fulfilling McCleary. This from a tweet; more details to come.
Update: He says that the $100k a day fine will go into an account for public education needs.
Further, the Court is urging Governor Inslee to reconvene the Legislature in yet another Special Session.
Stokes reports Court as saying, "further promises but no concrete plans."
The News Tribune is tweeting that by the time the Legislature would reconvene at its regular schedule in 2016, the fines would be at $3M.
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The Washington state Supreme Court Thursday delivered a unanimous order sanctioning the state for failing to come up with a plan to fully fund K-12 education per the court’s 2012 McCleary decision. It includes a fine of $100,000 per day.
-wowza
http://www.courts.wa.gov/content/publicUpload/Supreme%20Court%20News/843627_081315McClearyorder.pdf
:)
-wowza
http://news.yahoo.com/court-orders-sanctions-100k-day-against-washington-180648880.html
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/supreme-court-orders-100000-per-day-fines-in-mccleary-case/
That seems like a little bit of circular budget logic.
Not to mention, 100K per day, how long to fund 1351? Only about 100 years. Probably should have been a million per day at minimum.
-NNNCr
Is this real or make believe?
The constitution requires the state to provide buildings? I thought buildings were a local responsibility and the state was just doing a good deed to add money.
-NNNCr
Thanks for the link to the Court order. Perhaps many of those making comments at the Seattle Times should learn what the court actually said.
22 weeks X 7 days/week = 154 days. Call it 150 days so that we're using round numbers.
150 days X $100,000/day = $15 million
Not exactly chump change, but only a drop in the bucket compared to the needs that have to be addressed.
Still, it's a powerful symbol that should grab the attention of the entire legislature!
Math Guy
Cost benefit analysis ....
I wonder how much it costs to hold a special session of the legislature? Since we just had two 30-day special sessions, how much did those cost?
Perhaps it is cheaper to pay the $15 million into a special fund to be used for schools and wait for the next regular session than spend on another special session.
That's still nowhere near $15M, but that doesn't mean that it's not easier for legislators to just stay home and let the fines rack up. I'm in favor of justices laying down jail time for contempt, but that's just frustration with the Olympia process.
But I could be wrong - it's been a long time since I drafted a motion asking for contempt and had to look all this stuff up and I'm not as motivated as Eric B to check!
(Although not averse to detention, in agreement with Eric B on that one).
And there is a way to technically reduce class sizes without bringing the impossible zillions of new classrooms on line in Seattle: 2 teachers per class. 30 kids with 2 teachers full time in the room = 15 to 1. And that's probably better than 28 kids with one teacher ... I see a lot of ways doubling up with teachers in one room could be used creatively. For instance, half the kids in room A and half from room B could do PE together. At that time, teacher A1 and teacher B1 could stay in their rooms with the other half, doing small group stuff, and teachers A2 and B2 get their contractually mandated break. Then it switches, and the PE kids come back with teacher 2 for small group stuff, teachers 1 go on break, and kids 1 have PE. You can have some parts of the day - reading, for instance - occur in groups in the class with 2 teachers to circulate, which is way more helpful than only 1 circulating. Two full time teachers per big class is much better than only 1, if handled well. So even without additional rooms (which we do need but can't get on line very fast), SPS certainly should jump up and down to get more teachers and double them up in bigger classes.
Signed:
Math Counts
JR
If the legislature can't figure out where to find the money, a straight percentage across the board is the only solution.
-NNNCr
I don't know about the quality of credit recovery here: but in Michelle Rhee's DC credit recovery required very little effort or learning to recover credits.
Oh the joys of our one-size fits-all diploma combined with credit recovery.
-- Dan Dempsey
That said, the risk you mention exists. Six years ago in Federal Way math packets (a set of 12) were being handed out to earn math credits and they required so little effort that some students reportedly blew threw them in a single cram day (or single week if just doing them after school). I was told (admittedly 2nd hand) that some teachers refused to participate (admin pressure was concern about the low graduation rate) out of the lack of professionalism of such an easy credit and concern it would incentivize blowing off regular math classes because you could crank through a packet. I had a couple students in my program drop me to go do the packets because it was easier, which is why I asked a teacher friend who gave me the 2nd hand story.
I wasn't aware of the Rhee DC issue but it's no surprise.
JR
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