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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Well, it reminds me of my former students who couldn’t come in to get help on their math – with the explanation that they needed to work after school to get money for college.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Shirley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sue Hovey<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 20, 2013 6:42 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tom Hansen; Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] State Board members rip Luna’s K-12 budget<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>To my thinking the most interesting statement made by Bill Goesling was his comment (not in this article)that higher education drives the economy and K-12 education doesn’t. Anyone see any irony in that rationale? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Sue H. <br>"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" title="thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> Friday, October 18, 2013 8:13 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" title="vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> [Vision2020] State Board members rip Luna’s K-12 budget<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Courtesy of Idaho Ed News at:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/state-board-members-rip-lunas-budget-proposal/">http://www.idahoednews.org/news/state-board-members-rip-lunas-budget-proposal/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>---------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:13.2pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;letter-spacing:-.75pt;font-weight:normal'>State Board members rip Luna’s K-12 budget<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>State Board of Education member Bill Goesling ripped into Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna’s budget proposal on Thursday, calling the <a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/luna-calls-for-5-9-percent-budget-increase/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>5.9 percent spending increase</span></a> “unacceptable.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>“I find this to be just an unacceptable increase in numbers,” Goesling said during the board’s meeting in Lewiston. “I think at some point the board is going to have stand up and say, ‘This is not going to work for higher education.’”Goesling said an increase in public school funding would come at the expense of Idaho’s colleges and universities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Luna’s K-12 budget proposal does not factor in higher education spending, and it does not call for any cuts in any other budgets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Goesling suggested board members — who are appointed by Gov. Butch Otter — make a separate recommendation to the governor.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Although he was perhaps the most vocal critic of Luna’s proposed budget, Goesling was not alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>“The fact is these numbers are staggering when you look at where we are going and what we are doing and who is going to be robbed in this whole spectrum of moneys,” said board member Milford Terrell. Terrell said he understands public schools and universities are both seeking a restoration of Great Recession-era budget cuts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The debate flared up as Luna Deputy Chief of Staff Jason Hancock presented an overview of the budget proposal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The proposal calls for a $77 million increase in public school funding. Luna built his budget around several recommendations from Otter’s Task Force For Improving Education, including a five-year proposal to reverse cuts in K-12 operational funding, and a transformation of Idaho’s teacher pay model.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/k-12-task-force-endorses-21-proposals/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Those recommendations were backed</span></a> unanimously by the <a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/governor-names-his-task-force/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>31-member task force</span></a> — which included four members of the State Board, but not Goesling or Terrell.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Although the funding debate was passionate, it may have been somewhat of an academic exercise. The State Board does not appropriate funds – that task falls to lawmakers and Otter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Westerberg stood behind the task force’s work while acknowledging the “sticker shock” reaction to the budget.State board member Richard Westerberg – the task force’s chairman – appeared to sense the tension in the room Thursday. On at least two occasions, he jokingly asked if members could take an early break for lunch and set the discussion aside until later.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>“I don’t think anyone on the board or in the room would argue that we have adequately funded K-12 education,” Westerberg said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px;OUTLINE-STYLE: none;OUTLINE-COLOR: invert'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Even before Thursday, the budget proposal has drawn mixed reviews.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.25pt;text-indent:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>When Luna unveiled his proposal on Oct. 1, Sen. Steven Thayn, R-Emmett, praised Luna for incorporating the task force’s recommendation into the budget. But Thayn, who sits on the Senate’s budget-writing and education committees, added: <a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/luna-calls-for-5-9-percent-budget-increase/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>“I don’t think we’re going to have quite that much money over the next five years to do all of this.”</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.25pt;text-indent:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Senate Education Committee Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene, also applauded Luna’s attention to the task force. But Goedde told Idaho Education News the spending increase is <a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/lawmakers-start-scrutinizing-luna-budget/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>“a stretch.”</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.25pt;text-indent:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Some district superintendents have called for an <a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/superintendents-call-for-even-more-money/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>even bigger funding increase</span></a>, saying the state isn’t working quickly enough to reverse <a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/idaho-k-12-cuts-among-steepest-in-nation/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>some of the steepest K-12 budget cuts in the nation</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.25pt;text-indent:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>And last week, <a href="http://www.idahoednews.org/news/andrus-wins-award-comes-out-punching/"><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>former Gov. Cecil Andrus said it was time for Idahoans “to put our money where our mouth is”</span></a> if education is truly a top priority.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>---------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>=======================================================<br>List services made available by First Step Internet,<br>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a><br> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>