by Jami Lund,
Freedom Foundation
March 7, 2019
Gov. Jay Inslee’s school levy property tax increase, Senate Bill 5313, continues its path through the Washington State Legislature.
This is due to the crisis in school budgets created by union bargaining. Although districts were expected to stop using levy funds on salary enhancements, the combination of union hard bargaining and acquiescent school boards rendered these laws meaningless. Now many districts are going broke because the large pay raises they awarded are unfunded and unsustainable.
