How Can Washington Properly Fund Its Schools? Do What New Jersey Did.

Teachers on strike at Garfield High School in Seattle. KELLY O
There was a small detail you could easily have missed in my post Tuesday on the context of the Seattle school employees' union strike.
It was something I noticed in a Slate story from earlier this summer about our situation here in Washington, and it bears repeating: "When, in 1976, New Jersey was in a similar situation [to Washington], the Supreme Court shut down the schools for eight days. The fruits of that conflict remain with Ne