Washington State’s highest court on Aug. 13 imposed a hefty $100,000 per-day fine on the state for failing to come up with a plan to fully fund education from kindergarten through high school.

The court had ruled in 2012 that the state was failing to adequately fund basic public education for its 1 million schoolchildren and ordered the Legislature to devise a plan to close the multibillion dollar gap by 2018.

This August, the justices delivered a unanimous opinion that the state has so far failed to meet its obligations: “Despite repeated opportunities to comply with the court’s order to provide an implementation plan, the state has not shown how it will achieve full funding of all elements of basic education by 2018.”

Lawmakers increased education funding by $1.3 billion in the state’s 2015–17 operating budget, but the court doubts that the increase would be sufficient.