Union-backed court kills school choice program

State supreme court justices elected with the help of teachers’ unions have killed a school choice program that helps more than 1,200 students.

The Washington State Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will not reconsider a ruling in which it declared the state’s public charter school law unconstitutional. The court had initially ruled on Sept. 4 that charter schools could not receive state funding because they did not meet the definition of “common schools” in the state constitution.