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Leaving it to the expert

After going several fruitless rounds over how best to divvy up state education dollars, Idaho's legislative budget writers recently agreed to an unusual way out of the deadlock: They let the state schools chief decide.

Members of the legislature's joint finance-appropriations committee voted 13-7 on March 30 to give Superintendent Marilyn Howard the authority to distribute the state's...

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