State asks state Supreme Court to end education sanctions

(AP) — Attorneys from the office of Attorney General Bob Ferguson says the state is on track to fulfill its constitutional requirement to properly fund education and in a court filing Wednesday asked the state Supreme Court to drop a contempt order and lift daily sanctions imposed last year.

David Stolier, a senior assistant attorney general, and deputy solicitor general Alan Copsey filed a memo with the high court alongside a bipartisan legislative report detailing the Legislature's progress this year on education funding.

The justices have held the state in contempt over the Legislature's failure to make a plan for resolving the remaining issues over paying the full costs of basic education, while ending its overreliance on local tax levies.

The measure directs the task force to determine whether more legislation is needed to ensure all-day kindergarten and smaller K-3 class sizes are possible in every elementary school in the state.