<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of KHQ at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/8tcw6m8">http://tinyurl.com/8tcw6m8</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div><h3 class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; "><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">New lawsuit latest step in Idaho schools battle</span></font></h3></div><div><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A lawsuit over Idaho's system of funding public schools is growing, with the former school superintendent who is pressing the case reviving the claims made in another lawsuit that plodded through Idaho's courts for 15 years.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Russell Joki, a former Nampa Schools Superintendent, sued the state earlier this month in Ada County's 4th District Court, contending that student fees for things like chemistry and art supplies violate Idaho's constitutional promise of a free public education.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now he's adding a second cause of action to the lawsuit, contending that Idaho lawmakers have ignored an Idaho Supreme Court ruling from 2005 that found Idaho's school funding system didn't pass constitutional muster.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The state's response to the amended lawsuit will be likely filed the first half of November.</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">----------------</span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">And . . .</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">Courtesy of Marty Trillhaase's article posted in the Spokesman-Review at:</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://media.spokesman.com/documents/2012/10/2104_001.pdf">http://media.spokesman.com/documents/2012/10/2104_001.pdf</a></span></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><img src="cid:7899828D-7BA6-4DC5-9407-552F98E16FAD" alt="image.jpeg" id="7899828D-7BA6-4DC5-9407-552F98E16FAD" width="728" height="340"></p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">---------------</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">Former Nampa Schools Superintendent Russell Joki</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; "><img src="cid:8710E637-B36E-4726-BECA-5D57196A4068" alt="joki.jpg" id="8710E637-B36E-4726-BECA-5D57196A4068" width="125" height="133"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><img src="cid:A1CF6F9E-FD35-41BB-8E4A-879047938A1C" alt="image.jpeg" id="A1CF6F9E-FD35-41BB-8E4A-879047938A1C" width="330" height="222"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>