Ken Graham: FROM THE PUBLISHER

Is it right that such a big chunk of the cost of operating schools rests on the shoulders of local property tax payers through voter-approved levies?

During my conversation with Representative Terry Nealey a couple of weeks ago (which I wrote about last week), he said that education funding is once again the number one issue facing Washington’s state legislators in the current session, which began last week.

And the specific education funding issue those folks are addressing this year is how to make it more even-handed. That is, kids in rich suburban districts around Seattle should not have an...