The Columbian: Teachers, parents and legislators gather for school funding forum

Stonier said the state should look to raise more revenue. Heather Lindberg, an education activist who ran for the Vancouver School Board in 2015, said the state’s tax code is “completely upside down” in making the poor pay a greater percentage of their income than the wealthy. (A 2015 study by the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that Washington state has “by far” the most regressive tax system in the nation, with poor residents paying nearly 17 percent of family income while the wealthiest pay 2.4 percent.) Read more