Prante v. Kent School District No. 415

Plaintiffs are (1) schoolteachers and other nonsupervisory certified employees employed by defendant school districts, or (2) education associations which are recognized bargaining agents for the individual plaintiffs under the Education Employment Relations Act. We will refer to these parties as "teachers" or "plaintiffs." The defendant school districts are situated in south King County and are political subdivisions of the State of Washington. The named defendants are superintendents of the respective school districts.

The teachers filed parallel suits against five school districts, claiming…