McCleary v. State

¶1 This case challenges the adequacy of state funding for K-12 education under article IX, section 1 of the Washington State Constitution. Unlike recent challenges to the State’s funding of education, which have focused on discrete aspects of school finance such as staff *483compensation1 and special education,2 this case concerns the overall funding adequacy of K-12 education. The only other time we have reviewed this type of challenge to school funding was more than 30 years ago in Seattle School District No. 1 v. State, 90 Wn.2d 476, 585 P.2d 71 (1978).

¶2 Now, as then, the factual and legal…