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<DIV>Great editorial, but I think John Goedde is already speaking for the
Governor and his words are as arrogant as Luna’s. </DIV>
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<DIV>We will see. </DIV>
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<DIV>Sue Hovey </DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=moscowcares@moscow.com
href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com">Moscow Cares</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 08, 2012 6:35 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=cpenni@gmail.com href="mailto:cpenni@gmail.com">Penni
Cyr</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Waging trench warfare on Idaho kids'
time</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Courtesy of today's (November 8,
2012) Lewiston Tribune.</DIV>
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size=3><SPAN style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Waging trench warfare on
Idaho kids' time</SPAN></FONT></H1>
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Trillhaase </STRONG></P>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Former Idaho schools Superintendent Jerry
Evans tells about the trip he and his immediate predecessor, Roy Truby, took to
Twin Falls in the mid-1970s.</SPAN></P>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Their mission was to end a bitter
teachers' strike.</SPAN></P>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Both sides were dug in.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Until, that is, a local minister
upbraided teachers and school board members alike.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">He didn't know who was right. Didn't
care.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">But, he told the warring parties, "You're
doing this on my kids' time."</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Properly chastised, both sides returned
to the table. The strike ended. Kids went back to school.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Two years of fighting the Luna Laws
leaves Idaho in much the same kind of stalemate.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Acting in bad faith, Idaho schools
Superintendent Tom Luna gave birth to his agenda - undermining teacher
collective bargaining rights, imposing merit pay in lieu of substantive base pay
improvement and siphoning off money from classroom teachers to technology and
online instruction. He gave no hint of his plans until safely re-elected two
years ago and then sprung it on the public as a fait accompli during the 2011
legislative session.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">And when the people he shut out of the
process - teachers, administrators, parents, school board members and critics -
rose up and put the Luna Laws up for a referendum vote, he doubled down on that
strategy. His defense became a personal battle against foes he characterized as
union bosses.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Tuesday, a Republican electorate issued a
rebuke to this Republican official - striking down Proposition 1 (collective
bargaining) by 57.3 percent, Proposition 2 (merit pay) by 58 percent and
Proposition 3 (laptops and online instruction) by a stunning 66.7
percent.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Clearly Luna is no longer in any position
to lead Idaho education. With little formal power, his office has only the
opportunity to influence others. Luna's influence has been
liquidated.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">But in repealing the Luna Laws, Idaho
voters retained the same overwhelmingly Republican Legislature that passed those
laws in the first place. By and large, this is a group that sees education as a
financial drain and teachers as political adversaries.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Don't expect to see discredited Luna
agenda re-enacted. Neither should you be surprised to watch lawmakers divert
money Luna intended to lavish on technology and merit pay and sink it into tax
cuts.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Such a stalemate leaves Idaho's youth
mired in schools so underfunded they rank in the national
basement.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">It provokes an escalating exodus of
teachers, not just from Idaho but from their profession.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">It does nothing to address the 23 percent
decline in Idaho's financial commitment to schools that has violated a
constitutional mandate for "uniform and thorough system of public, free common
schools."</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">And gridlock means no progress toward
genuine reforms on legitimate concerns:</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">How does the state find middle ground
between those who say no teacher deserves a job for life and others who
recognize teachers need protection from arbitrary dismissal and political
pressure?</SPAN>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">How will the state attract and retain
its share of the best and brightest teachers by raising base pay along with
providing incentives for those truly meritorious instructors?</SPAN>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">And in a modern era, how can schools
most effectively use technology?</SPAN></LI></UL></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">No other state - or country - is going to
delay its own progress to enable Idahoans to patch up their differences and
begin catching up.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Unless somebody starts with a big table
with room for everyone - teachers, parents, administrators, technophiles,
technophobes and politicians.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">All that's needed is one leader to make
it happen.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">That can't be Luna. He's not just a lame
duck. He's a dead duck. The people he's vilified for the past two years won't
work with him.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Nor can it be a Legislature that has been
waging war against the Idaho Education Association for six
years.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Nor the State Board of Education, which
has been focused on higher education to the exclusion of public
schools.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Only one indispensable figure remains -
Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">As Luna's titular partner, Otter did not
emerge from this political debacle untarnished. Still, when it's the governor
picking up the phone, things happen - even something as seemingly improbable as
a summit among the IEA and the GOP legislative leadership.</SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">The people have spoken. Now's the time
for their governor to act. - M.T.</SPAN></P>
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<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</DIV>
<DIV> </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>
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