Measure Allows Idaho Schools to Reopen Contracts
A measure declaring a financial emergency for all Idaho schools that was tacked onto Wednesday's $1.58 billion public education spending plan prompted a protest by the Idaho teachers union.
Rep. Fred Wood, R-Burley, is pushing the provision to allow Idaho school boards to reopen negotiations on salary and benefits of school teachers in the middle of 2010-2011 school years, even if their districts aren't close to exhausting their funds, which was required by a 2009 law before they could declare an emergency.
Separate votes Wednesday to pare a total of $128 billion from the public education budget were all 15-4, with Republicans on the winning side and minority Democrats losing. But Wood's measure passed 12-7, with three Republicans — Sens. Dean Cameron, from Rupert, Joyce Broadsword, from Sagle, and Jim Hammond, from Coeur d'Alene — joining...
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