Labor Tiff Comes With a Price Tag: $13.2 Million

Nobody’s happy about the union-management standoff that’s left Washington state without a $13.2 million grant from the National Math and Science Initiative to support the teaching of Advanced Placement classes.

It foundered on the inability of Mentoring Advanced Programs for Students, or MAPS, the Vancouver, Wash.-based group that was awarded the grant, and local affiliates of the Washington Education Association to come to terms on a financial-incentive program for participating teachers.

MAPS announced May 2 that the nonprofit national initiative, which is financed by several prominent foundations and corporations, had...