[Vision2020] Lawmakers tweak Idaho's new education laws

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of KHQ at:

http://www.khq.com/story/17131007/lawmakers-tweak-idahos-new-education-laws
 
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Lawmakers tweak Idaho's new education laws

By JESSIE L. BONNER
Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - As lawmakers tinker with an education overhaul signed into law last year, they've been urged to proceed with caution.

The public school reforms face a test in November, with measures on the ballot asking voters to reject changes that limit teacher collective bargaining, introduce merit pay and require high school students to take online courses.

Even reform supporters acknowledge their work to refine the laws in 2012 could be for naught.

When presenting a serious of tweaks to the disputed education laws, Sen. John Goedde noted each bill includes language ensuring that if the laws are thrown out, the amendments also go.

The attorney general's office has urged lawmakers to act in "good faith" and avoid revisions in 2012 that may be seen as an attempt to thwart the referendum.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown


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