Funding Advocates Accuse Idaho’s High Court Of ‘Cop-Out’

After 16 years of litigation over how to pay for school facilities in Idaho, the only certainty in the case is uncertainty.

“[This case] is a complex mess at the moment,” Robert C. Huntley, the lawyer for the plaintiffs said in an interview this month. The class action was originally brought in 1990 by a coalition of school districts known as Idaho Schools for Equal Educational Opportunity.

Last December, the Idaho Supreme Court declared the state’s system for funding school facilities unconstitutional. It was the fifth time that the case had been brought...