School Funding

The state boosted spending to comply with a ruling in the landmark McCleary case, but the public schools chief says it hasn’t kept up.

Special education, transportation and staff salaries would be the largest recipients of new money in the request from the state schools chief.

Declining enrollment and the end of pandemic-era funding are forcing tough financial decisions for many Western Washington school districts.

In recent years, districts are spending a lot more money to keep Washington’s schools running — but state funding isn’t keeping up.

In more than 40 districts statewide in Washington, voters will decide on Feb. 13 whether or not to rebuild aging schools, many that are in desperate need of repair.

The court said in its written opinion that the state shares only part of the responsibility to pay schools' construction costs, but didn't specify exactly how much.

With a nationally acclaimed local jazz program at risk, the trumpet legend joins Washington Middle School graduates in protest.

School districts are required to submit four-year budget plans to the state schools superintendent’s office under a new rule approved by legislators last…

(Updated at 10:43 am on Aug. 29, 2018, to add that the Tacoma Education Association says the raise the district is offering is 0.6 percent above what's in…

Seattle teachers will take a strike authorization vote Tuesday afternoon after failing to reach a tentative contract agreement with the school district.…