School Districts' Alliance for Adequate Funding of Special Education v. State

*245¶1 The School Districts’ Alliance for Adequate Funding of Special Education (Alliance)1 sought to have the courts declare statutes governing Washington State’s special education funding process unconstitutional both facially and as applied. The trial court agreed with the Alliance that the 12.7 percent cap on the number of funded students was unconstitutional,2 but it held that the Alliance had improperly excluded the basic education allocation (BEA) in calculating the amount of funding available to school districts for special education and, therefore, had not proved beyond a reasonable…