The combined House and Senate Education Committees held a meeting today to review the education reforms pushed last year by State Superintendent Tom Luna.
Luna mainly rehashed his “educating more students at a higher level with limited resour…
The House Education Committee today took a step back on House Bill 406, which would extensively amend employee records legislation passed just last year. In testimony to the committee today, Idaho Education Association General Counsel Paul Stark said…
The third week at the 2012 Idaho Legislature was marked by State Superintendent Tom Luna’s budget presentation before the Joint-Finance Appropriations Committee on Thursday. Luna is anxious to have the budget writers fully fund his technology a…
In Tom Luna’s ideal world, every part of the reforms he pushed through last year would be fully funded and every child would receive adequate individual attention from a highly qualified teacher.
But in the real world, Luna’s vision fac…
The Idaho Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee has been hearing budget requests for the past two weeks, and it is State Superintendent Tom Luna’s turn Thursday. The public schools budget presentation starts at 8 a.m. Mount…
Remember reports last week about Gov. Butch Otter’s staff and State Superintendent Tom Luna feuding over teacher pay? Luna wanted nearly $20 million more in the education budget than Otter since, as Idaho Statesman reporter Dan Popkey put it, h…