Idahoans saw democracy in action Friday as hundreds of people turned out for the first-ever public hearing held by the state’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee. Most gratifying for Idaho educators and our allies, testimony among the 90 or…
Laurence Gebhardt, Pocatello businessman: My recommendation is to send the Luna plan back for a rework. It's like the Obama health care plan: It needs piloting before full implementation. Public education is not broken and we don't have an ep…
Susan Garcia, Pocatello teacher of 31 years: “Ask me what it takes to put students first. I know.” Has seen pendulum of change swing back and forth, but No Child Left Behind mandates and budget cuts have been worst developments. She's never had a…
Lilburn Wesche, former NNU professor, Boise: I'm here for my grandchildren. I don't want surgery done on me by the graduate of an online medical school. I've yet to see a clicker comfort a troubled teen. My grandkids in Meridian have clas…
Christina Hartman, Bear Lake: Aside from the fact that the online courses Luna is proposing we offer are currently being failed by 75 percent of the students in our district who take them, they will never be able to determine a student’s indivi…
Remarks by Sherri Wood
President, Idaho Education Association, 620 N. 6th St., Boise, ID 83701
Prepared for the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee of the Idaho Legislature January 21, 2011
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