School-Funding Debate Hits Airwaves As Idaho Governor, Lawmakers Clash
A $5-million difference in education funding has touched off a bitter partisan dispute between Idaho's Democratic Governor and Republican legislative leaders.
Accusing each other of using education funding to fuel an election- year political battle, Gov. Cecil D. Andrus and the chiefs of the House and Senate faced off in statewide television addresses last week.
The conflict had broken into the open on March 6, when the Republican-majority House approved an appropriations bill cutting Governor Andrus's proposed $502-million education...
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