SR Edit: Supreme Court Botched School Decision

The state Supreme Court has failed Idaho’s children by washing its hands of a long-running lawsuit to fix school buildings. After 16 years of briefs, counterbriefs and foot-dragging by the state of Idaho, the Supreme Court has closed the case and decided to rely on legislators to rectify the problem of unsafe or inadequate school buildings. Apparently, the justices haven’t paid attention to the legal maneuvering by lawmakers to ignore or sidestep every adverse court decision they’ve faced in this 1990 case. This includes the decision last December in which the Supreme Court declared the school funding system unconstitutional. There is now clearly a final judgment,” Justice Linda Copple Trout told attorneys for the state and school districts. Only there isn’t, because the court has punted a remedy back to lawmakers. For the rest of my editorial about the Idaho Supreme Court decision, click here .

Question: What should the Idaho Supreme Court have done to ensure that public school children attend school in safe buildings?