State Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued a statement in response to Thursday\u2019s state Supreme Court charter schools decision that upheld its earlier ruling that the charter law approved by voters is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cMy job as Attorney General is to uphold the will of the voters. That is why, throughout this process, I have defended the charter school initiative approved by the voters of Washington state.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Supreme Court\u2019s opinion of Sept. 4, 2015 in League of Women Voters of Wash. v. State was overbroad.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Regardless of one\u2019s opinion about charter schools, the original opinion endangered important programs such as Running Start, tribal compact schools, and vocational education.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Therefore, I asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision, and today the court agreed with me on a crucial point.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n The court acknowledged that its opinion was broader than necessary.\u00a0 Specifically, by removing footnote 10, the court eliminated a significant threat to programs like Running Start, tribal compact schools, and vocational education.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n While the court declined to revisit its holding regarding charter school funding, it is now up to the Legislature to decide whether to adopt a different mechanism to fund charter schools.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n A bipartisan group of legislators, as well as every former Washington State Attorney General, filed amicus (or \u201cfriend-of-the-court\u201d) briefs in support of the State\u2019s Motion for Reconsideration. The three tribes operating tribal compact schools also filed an amicus brief asking the Court to reconsider its opinion.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" State Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued a statement in response to Thursday\u2019s state Supreme Court charter schools decision that upheld its earlier ruling that the charter law approved by voters is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":13474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}