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The Edmonds School District has joined Douglas County parents and teachers in asking the court to allow them to join Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson in defending $500 million per year for education funding.

This week, they filed a motion to intervene as defendants with the state Superior Court in Douglas County in the cases of Clayton v. Washington and Quinn v. Washington. Both lawsuits are trying to eliminate $500 million per year in education funding raised from a capital gains tax on extraordinary profits from stock sales exceeding $250,000.

These monies fund school repai...