It’s judgment time for the Legislature, which crunched out a two-year budget this spring under the threat of punishment from the state Supreme Court over education funding.
Last fall, the court found lawmakers in contempt for not moving fast enough to fix school funding, falling short of what the court ordered in 2012 in a case known as the McCleary decision. But the justices postponed deciding whether to order sanctions until the end of this year’s session.
Now that the session is over, both the state and the plaintiffs have filed briefs the court requested, outlining what they think the justices should do next.