<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of today's (July 24, 2013) Spokesman-Review.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-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; "><br></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); font-size: 24px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); "><a href="http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2013/jul/23/nearly-160-idaho-schools-appeal-their-new-star-ratings/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: invert none medium; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(38, 70, 93); ">Nearly 160 Idaho schools appeal their new ‘star ratings’</a></h1></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Idaho’s new “star ratings” for schools are the crucial report card that determines whether a school is meeting standards or not, and Idaho Education News reporter Kevin Richert reports that nearly 160 Idaho schools are appealing their ratings this year. About 650 schools receive star ratings; in past years, the state has generally received appeals from 75 to 100 schools, Richert writes; you can read his <a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/star-ratings-appeals-up-sharply/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(38, 70, 93); outline: invert none medium; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">full report here</a>.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">How Moscow's schools fared . . .<br></span><br><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:5257C998-DFBF-479D-8070-483B21F19F31" id="5257C998-DFBF-479D-8070-483B21F19F31" width="640" height="135"></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br><br><img src="cid:E5FDBAF9-5C5D-4445-9E59-C087EEC9A22F" id="E5FDBAF9-5C5D-4445-9E59-C087EEC9A22F" width="640" height="136"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br><br><img src="cid:EE35A601-0E9F-4A75-BBD9-F06D1ED89C6A" id="EE35A601-0E9F-4A75-BBD9-F06D1ED89C6A" width="640" height="129"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br><br><img src="cid:0C4BE70A-CF7A-4318-A6AE-78B7F39757EB" id="0C4BE70A-CF7A-4318-A6AE-78B7F39757EB" width="640" height="134"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br><br><img src="cid:DE1989F5-A62D-48F1-845B-5FA329D07DE7" id="DE1989F5-A62D-48F1-845B-5FA329D07DE7" width="640" height="135"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div style="-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); "><img src="cid:9FD1ECEF-AC52-4D93-9E6A-87BC76A4C096" id="9FD1ECEF-AC52-4D93-9E6A-87BC76A4C096" width="640" height="146"></div><div style="-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); "><br><br><img src="cid:E404800D-FBCB-4811-9E37-597535B6E00D" id="E404800D-FBCB-4811-9E37-597535B6E00D" width="640" height="136"></div><div style="-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); "><br><br><img src="cid:848D78CA-91E1-490C-925A-180E220712CB" id="848D78CA-91E1-490C-925A-180E220712CB" width="640" height="132"></div><div style="-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); "><br></div><div style="-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); ">--------------------------------------</div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</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>"<span style="font-size: medium; -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); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -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><span style="font-size: medium; -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); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -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); "><span style="font-size: medium; -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); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-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);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-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);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>