One year and more than $1 billion later, it’s still borderline impossible to build a new school in Idaho.
Voters in Middleton, Shelley and Filer overwhelmingly rejected $150.5 million in school bond issues Tuesday. And it wasn’t even close. The districts’ share from Idaho’s historic facilities bonding program didn’t appear to make a bit of difference.
Election blowouts like Tuesday’s raise some imponderable questions. Is the state’s method for building schools hopelessly out of date? So out of date that even a massive and unprecedented infusion of state money will not be able to fix it?…