Anyone with a kid and/or a newspaper subscription knows that Washington schools face budget crises driven by all manner of systemic issues, stealthy and overt assaults from the right, and a recalcitrant Legislature unwilling to tax the rich in order to fulfill the state’s constitutional duty to fully fund basic education. The only candidate running with the brains, the energy, and the savvy needed to solve these problems is two-term incumbent Chris Reykdal.
