text: .... I know .... I was there when they wrote the requirement.  1998... several $billion dollars ago.  
  
  You forgot the: waiver.  -- the hold harmless provisions and most of all: reality.  
  
  You'd have better luck passing a requirement in the Funding formula to stop the next: high tide.  
  
  It's crazy to support 50+ school districts with a population the size of a suburb of Seattle.   
  
  .... if the State doesn't replace the current formula, then student and school scores will remain in the lower end of the spectrum.
  
    Keep doing the same thing and expecting different results - isn't much of a strategy for: improvement.