[Vision2020] Idaho, Education, and State Senate Bills 1068 and 1069

[Moscow Cares]

Greetings Visionaires -

On Thursday Jason Hancock (one of Supt Luna's underlings in the State
Department of Education) met with the Senate Education Committee to lay
the "ground work for, and introduce, RS20241 (now known as Senate Bill
1068) and RS20254C1 (now known as Senate Bill 1069).  As a result of Mr.
Hancock's groundwork, these two bills will be introduced before the Senate
Education Committee on Monday (February 7, 2011).

Just what are Senate Bills 1068 and 1069, you ask?

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S1068   by EDUCATION COMMITTEE

EDUCATION - Amends, repeals and adds to existing law relating to education
to revise conditions relating to the employment of professional personnel
by the Board of Trustees; to revise provisions relating to certain
employment; to provide that a district may place certain employees on
unpaid leave of absence; to revise provisions relating to contract
categories; to provide provisions relating to grandfathered renewable
contracts; to provide provisions relating to reductions in force; to
provide legislative findings; and to provide provisions relating to
contract negotiations and establishing contracts.

http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/S1068.pdf

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S1069   by EDUCATION COMMITTEE

EDUCATION - Repeals, amends and adds to existing law relating to education
to provide for a fiscal report card; to repeal provisions relating to
matching grants for science education programs; to revise provisions
relating to the educational support program; to revise provisions relating
to certain program support units; to revise provisions relating to staff
allowances; to revise provisions relating to the experience and education
multiplier; to revise provisions relating to obligations to PERSI and
social security; to provide provisions relating to pay for performance; to
provide provisions relating to public school technology and online
courses; and to revise provisions relating to public charter schools.

http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/S1069.pdf

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You fine peeps of the Viz have two options:

Option 1:  at 2:00 pm (our time) on Monday (February 7th) you can crank up
your computer speakers and link yourself to:

http://www.idahoptv.org/leglive/committee.cfm?CommID=17

and listen to the hearings concerning these two bills, or . . .

Option 2:  You can wait until "Moscow Cares" records, and posts these
hearings (in their exciting entirety) online for y'all to scrutinize.

Your call.

Until then . . .

I'll be postin' this weekend from the 'hood in Spokane.

Seeya on the flip-flop, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho