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Stop SB5313

We are seeing horror stories regarding possible layoffs at some school districts including School District 81.

Unfortunately, much of this comes about because SD81 agreed to a labor contract that they knew they did not have the money for. SD81 sold “excess” property to bail themselves out in 2019 but that may not to be an option for 2020 and beyond. The easy out appears to be to back the Washington Education Association and legislative Democrats by returning to the old system of high local levies that the Washington state Supreme Court ruled was unconstitutional.

That is what SB5313 would do in the state legislature. This legislation should be stopped before it puts us back into the same situation that the McCleary decision was supposed to get us out of. I hope people will contact their legislators to vote against this bill.

Kent Aggers

Spokane

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