The Utah Constitution may have given them no choice, but the Utah Supreme Court’s decision this week to allow partisan Utah Board of Education elections will make Utah’s education system a little more ideological and a little less practical.
The people who pushed this to the Supreme Court had a good civic attitude but a weak legal argument. They said Board of Education members were education employees and therefore not allowed to participate in partisan politics.
The court disagreed, thereby allowing the legislative branch carry through with its decision to define the board as a partisan one.