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NORTHSHORE SCHOOL DIST. v. KINNEAR

No. 42352.

84 Wn.2d 685 (1974)

530 P.2d 178

NORTHSHORE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 417 et al., Petitioners, v. GEORGE KINNEAR et al., Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

December 16, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Caplinger, Carroll, Rindal, Caplinger & Kennedy, John Gant, David J. Williams, Colvin & Williams, George Akers, Montgomery, Purdue, Blankinship & Austin, and William Andersen, for petitioners.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and Richard M. Montecucco and William A. Coats, Assistants, for respondents.

HALE, C.J.

Education is a bulwark of this democracy. A system of free public schools, like a system of open courts, not only helps make life worth living but sustains our long-cherished ideas of individual liberty. Where the nation's constitution provides for a system of open courts, however, it makes no mention of free public schools. The people of this state found this oversight unacceptable in 1889 when they brought Washington...

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