Washington charter initiative STILL undecided — update
We STILL don’t know the outcome of Washington’s initiative to allow charter schools to open in the state.
Pro charter forces spent more than $10 million to win approval from voters, who had rejected approving charter schools three times before. Bill Gates alone donated more than $3 million, Alice Walton of Wal-Mart fame gave more than $1.6 million, just to name a few of the billionaires who tried to get the initiative passed.
The latest numbers on the Web site of the secretary of state show that “yes” votes on Initiative 1240 have 50.84 percent of the vote — down from 51.1 percent of the vote a fe