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Supreme Court cases since the Janus decision earlier this year, which ruled unconstitutional the collection of union dues from nonmembers

-school data; charter schools were only approved by voters in 2012 and still educate a tiny percentage of students in Washington state.

Washington State Labor Council, AFT Washington, SEIU 925, Seattle Education Association, The Transit Riders Union, and Washington Physicians

a 14 percent raise and a one-year contract. Tacoma Education Association representative Angel Morton said the layoffs at the administrative

Carol Harms, a math teacher at Sequim High School and a Sequim Education Association member, also acknowledged these issues. “We would like

percentages of children from low-income families. As the Clarkston Education Association president for the 2018-19 school year, Stroschein

grows. And a few bills, like those tied to education funding and the McCleary case, are still getting paid off. Already this year Inslee

formulas and boosted state funding to all school districts in response to the McCleary decision, in which the state Supreme Court found that

tax to put more money into public schools and to bring an end to the McCleary school-funding lawsuit. They also set a cap on how much school

job action by the Paraeducators Association, a local of the Washington Education Association, was the first strike in Washington state by a