Remarks to the Senate Education Committee, February 7, 2011
Sherri Wood, President, Idaho Education Association
Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I am Sherri Wood, president of the Idaho Education Association. Thank you for holding these …
Sen. Goedde just said the committee will continue asking questions another 20 minutes, then hear from the stakeholder groups today. “That should get us out of here at a quarter to six,” he noted.
The committee is now asking questions of Jason Hancock from the Department of Education, who is answering questions about the Luna bills page by page. After about 40 minutes of committee questions – with just a half-hour remaining in today's sche…
Sen. Edgar Malepeai (D-Pocatello) called out Luna just now on the inflamed rhetoric that he and his allies have been using to describe teachers as union members. “Do teachers matter?” he asked. “On any major reform, you need the stakeholders to buy i…
Sen. Mitch Toryanski (R-Boise) just asked Superintendent Luna about the lack of public buy-in for his plan. Luna replied that all stakeholder groups were part of the Idaho Education Alliance, and he built its goals and objectives into this plan. He a…
Tom Luna just accused the IEA of trying to rile up parents over laptops rather than addressing a funding shortfall, quoting out of context a post from the IEA Hotline. Here is the full context of the passage:
Yes, it’s that bad, and it&rsquo…