This article is from The Bellingham Herald
Advocates of online learning programs have sued Washington state in a bid to piggy back on the recent state Supreme Court ruling that said the Legislature had failed to meet its constitutional duty to fully pay for basic education.
The online learning lawsuit was filed in King County and is linked here. In a news release issued this week by Washington Families for Online Learning, which is linked here, former state Republican lawmaker Gigi Talcott of Lakewood and fellow activists say:
Since the establishment of online public school programs in 2005 via HB 5828, there has been no question that online learning is a delivery model for basic education under state law. Accordingly, students enrolled in state-approved online public schools have received the full Basic Education Allocation (BEA) per FTE student as students enrolled in traditional public schools—until the Legislature decided it could “save” money with a 15% cut in 2011. Now students enrolled in online public schools receive just 85% of BEA while students in traditional public schools continue to receive 100% funding.
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