[Vision2020] Senate Bill 1108 (The Vote)
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Eye On Boise
Candle-carrying walkers protest bills
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 4:47 p.m. • 0 comments
About a hundred people are walking around the Capitol in a vigil, carrying
small candles shielded by paper cups, silently protesting the Senate's votes
today to pass two school-reform bills, including a measure removing many of
Idaho teachers' existing contract rights. The event is one of 23 hastily
scheduled across the state today after the bills passed this afternoon in an
extended Senate debate that stretched for five hours; you can see the full list
here.
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Nonini schedules HB 1108, 1110 for House Ed hearings starting Tuesday
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 4:25 p.m. • 0 comments
House Education Chairman Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, said just now, “After
visiting with leadership, we have decided to hold the hearings beginning next
Tuesday morning.” The two school reform bills that already have passed the
Senate - SB 1108 and SB 1110 - will be considered by the House Education
Committee starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Nonini said; he's already reserved the
Capitol Auditorium, the Statehouse's largest hearing room, for three days,
though he said he hopes it won't take that full time. The hearings will run
from 8-11 a.m.
Nonini said he initially thought he should wait until all three bills arrived,
but with the third undergoing a rework in the Senate Education Committee, he
said that “could be a week or more.” Said Nonini, “We just thought we should
get the two bills we have moving.”
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Candlelight vigils set across state
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 3:47 p.m. • 0 comments
Twenty-three candlelight vigils will be held around the state today in response
to the Senate's passage of the first two bills in state schools Supt. Tom
Luna's school reform plan, the Idaho Education Association announced, starting
with one on the sidewalks ringing the state Capitol at 5 p.m. You can see the
full list of vigils here. IEA President Sherri Wood said in a statement,
“Twenty members of the Idaho Senate today defied Idahoans by voting to advance
two of the three bills in Superintendent Tom Luna’s cynical package to overhaul
education in Idaho. Many of the Senators noted in debate that they’ve heard
more public opposition to this plan than on any other issue in their careers,
yet 20 of them ignored that input and voted to pass the bills.” You can read
her full statement here.
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Goedde: Senate Ed likely to start discussing changes to SB 1113 Monday
or Tuesday
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 3:10 p.m. • 0 comments
Senate Education Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene, asked what's next on
the third, and biggest, piece of the school reform plan, said, “We've had
individual committee members working on parts of it. We will schedule it for
discussion Monday or Tuesday.” At that point, he said, the committee will “see
… where there might be some opportunities to make changes.” Most likely, Goedde
said, SB 1113 will be held in committee and a new, revised bill introduced.
SB 1113 is the centerpiece of state schools Supt. Tom Luna's reform plan; it
calls for increasing class sizes in grades 4-12 and cutting 770 teaching jobs
in the next two years, to save millions that then would be funneled into
technology upgrades, a laptop computer for every high school student, online
courses, teacher performance pay, and more. That measure was pulled back to the
Senate Education Committee yesterday, amid concerns in the Senate about raising
school class sizes. The other two pieces of the plan, SB 1108, reducing Idaho
teachers' contract rights, and SB 1110, setting up the performance-pay plan,
both passed the Senate today on identical 20-15 votes.
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Senate Dems: ‘Mean-spirited plan’
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 3 p.m. • 3 comments
Senate Democrats have issued a statement calling today “a sad day for
educators,” after the Senate's two 20-15 votes in favor of the first two school
reform bills; you can read their full statement here. Senate Minority Leader
Edgar Malepeai, D-Pocatello, said, “It saddens me that my colleages in the
Senate would pass these laws knowing full well the extent to which our citizens
are offended by Tom Luna's mean-spirited plan.” Malepeai also discusses in the
statement the Senate Democrats' reasons for forcing the bills to be read in
full before they were voted on, a move they hadn't made since the special
session in 2006 on eliminating the school property tax levy. “We requested the
bills be read at length because we believe that this legislation is being
rushed through the Legislature and we had deep concerns that many of our fellow
senators intended to vote yes but had yet to read the bills in their entirety,”
he said.
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Luna: ‘A great day’
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 2:56 p.m. • 0 comments
State schools Supt. Tom Luna had this statement in response to today's Senate
passage of two of this three reform bills: “This is a great day for Idaho and
its children. With these two bills, we have reformed the way we pay teachers,
and we have reformed the way school districts can operate by returning
authority and flexibility to locally elected school boards. Next, we must
reform Idaho's classrooms so all students learn in a 21st century classroom and
are prepared to succeed in the world that awaits them.”
Luna told Eye on Boise, “I'm very proud of the governor, I'm very proud of our
elected officials and their willingness to make some tough choices and reform
our system. … We still have a few steps to go.”
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SB 1110 passes Senate on same 20-15 vote
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Feb. 24, 2011 1:57 p.m. • 1 comment
SB 1110, the teacher performance pay bill, has passed the Senate on a 20-15
vote - the same vote as the previous bill, SB 1108 on teacher contracts.
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Darrington: ‘Measure of success of teacher is not at the moment’
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Feb. 24, 2011 1:52 p.m. • 1 comment
Sen. Denton Darrington, R-Declo, a longtime 8th grade teacher, recalled having
students come up to him years later and tell him what they learned from him. He
told the Senate, “The greatest measure of the success of a teacher is not at
the moment, it's down the road. … And you can't measure that, you can't … but
it's significant.”
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Debate: ‘Just creates more frustration,’ ‘definitely a better way’
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 1:41 p.m. • 0 comments
Sen. Edgar Malepeai, D-Pocatello, told the Senate of teaching troubled and
disadvantaged children. It's a challenge, he said, to help those youngsters in
cases where their parents aren't involved. “Ladies and gentlemen, this bill
doesn't figure it out,” he said of SB 1110, the teacher performance-pay bill.
“It just creates more frustration.”
Sen. Brent Hill, R-Rexburg, said, “I had a lot of good teachers growing up. I
didn't grow up as well as they hoped. I've heard from some in the last two
weeks.” He said, “There's no completely fair system, folks. There's no
completely fair system. The system we have right now is as unfair as any system
I can think of. This may not be the best way, but it's definitely a
better way.”
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Pearce: ‘Do it for the kids’
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 1:33 p.m. • 1 comment
Sen. Monty Pearce, R-New Plymouth, debating in favor of SB 1110, the teacher
performance pay bill, said, “Today I think is one of the most exciting days in
Idaho history, where we've had the nerve and the internal fortitude to stand up
and say it's time to do it right, it's time to make a change.” He said, “I hope
we have the wisdom … to stand up and really do it for the kids.”
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Debate on merit-pay bill: ‘Not ready, not funded,’ ‘teachers finally rewarded’
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 1:27 p.m. • 1 comment
In the debate on SB 1110, the teacher performance-pay bill, Sen. Nicole
LeFavour, D-Boise, said, “I believe this bill is not ready and it certainly is
not funded.” Passing it without a funding source, she said, threatens to
compete with existing school funding for already-strapped school districts.
The bill is part of a three-bill package proposed by state schools Supt. Tom
Luna; its funding would come from raising class sizes in grades 4-12, but that
bill has been sent back to the Senate Education Committee for a rework.
Sen. Jim Hammond, R-Coeur d'Alene, debating in favor of the bill, said, “It's
important that those folks who are willing to put in their time to create a new
curriculum, or those folks who are willing to mentor new teachers, or those
folks that are willing … to provide leadership, are rewarded. That's really
what we're talking about here.” He said it will let teachers “be able to have
more control over their wages.”
Sen. Melinda Smyser, R-Parma, said, “It's just like a business. If I'm not
doing the job, I'm going to be fired. … With this bill, teachers will finally
be rewarded.”
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Teacher performance-pay debate: Goedde says there’s ‘no funding source’
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Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 1:04 p.m. • 0 comments
Sen. John Goedde, opening debate on SB 1110, the teacher performance pay bill,
said it will reward teachers with bonuses for outstanding work, and let
districts pay more to those in hard-to-fill positions. “Senators, we have an
educator pay scale that's built in the 19th century,” Goedde said. “It doesn't
work, it doesn't recognize excellence.”
Sen. Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum, said, “I'm having a hard time understanding
how we're actually funding this. Where does the money actually come from?”
Goedde said the cost would be $38 million starting in fiscal year 2013, and
“there is no funding source attached to this.” In subsequent years, according
to the bill, it would cost $51.3 million a year.
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How they voted…
Posted by Betsy
Feb. 24, 2011 12:47 p.m. • 0 comments
Here's the Senate vote breakdown on SB 1108, the teacher contracts bill:
Voting in favor: Sens. Bair, Brackett, Davis, Fulcher, Goedde, Hammond, Heider,
Hill, Lodge, McGee, McKague, McKenzie, Mortimer, Nuxoll, Pearce, Siddoway,
Smyser, Toryanski, Vick, and Winder.
Voting against: Sens. Andreason, Bilyeu, Bock, Broadsword, Cameron, Corder,
Darrington, Keough, LeFavour, Malepeai, Schmidt, Stegner, Stennett, Tippetts,
and Werk.
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From: Sam Scripter <MoscowSam at charter.net>
To: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
Cc: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thu, February 24, 2011 12:48:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Senate Bill 1108 (The Vote)
20 Ayes plus 15 Nays = 35 "Votes" . . .
How many State Senators do we have?
How many got to vote?????
Seriously, I ask . . .
Sam, I am . . .
Tom Hansen wrote:
Senate Bill 1108 passes the Idaho State Senate.
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>20 Ayes
>15 Nayes
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>Penni Cyr (a teacher in Moscow School District) announces:
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>A candle light vigil will be held at Friendship Square tonight at 6:00
>p.m. this evening to send our clear disappoint in the vote and to gather
>our supporters together. Everyone is strongly encouraged to attend. We
>are inviting the community as well, through Vision 20/20 and through other
>contacts. Lewiston will be holding a candle vigil in Locomotive Park at
>6:00 p.m. tonight as well. Others neighboring school districts will be
>invited to attend one of these vigils.
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>It is definitely a sad day in Idaho.
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>My condolences, Moscow.
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>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
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>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
>and the Realist adjusts his sails."
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>- Unknown
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