Statesman: Supermajority Has To Go

Give Tom Luna credit. And wish him luck. The state’s school superintendent has picked a whale of a top legislative priority for 2010. Luna wants to give local districts a fighting chance to repair aging schools or build new schools. So he will try to persuade lawmakers to rewrite a long-debated - but politically popular - section of the Idaho Constitution. The constitution requires a two-thirds majority to pass a school bond issue. Coupled with the Legislature’s refusal to put any state dollars directly into school construction, it’s safe to say Idaho is the toughest state in America to build a school. Luna wants to change that. Not because he’s a free spender: Luna’s conservatism is pretty much aligned with many of his fellow Republicans in the Legislature. But Luna does recognize that fair is fair/ Idaho Statesman . More here .

Question: Should Idaho lower the two-thirds supermajority vote requirement for building new schools or repairing old ones?