The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON--The Washington state legislature recently approved a four-year, 7.3 billion education package to satisfy a Supreme Court ruling requiring the state to fully fund basic education. The burden of basic teacher salaries will now be shifted to the state from local districts and salaries will be paid depending on regional housing costs.

The amount set aside from the package for 2018-19 biennium is $1.8 billion.

Details about how funds will be disbursed and what the rules are, are being discussed by officials at the Office of State Public Instruction, and are causing headaches for local sc...