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EDUCATION
from November 19, Exploring Education meeting Local rmifications of Idaho's new education laws with St. Maries School Board Chair Marge Gannon on You Tube Exploring Education Part 1 |
| What's in the Luna Laws? short list of the changsescourtesy Idahoans for Responsible Education Reform |
Senate Bill 1108
- Rolls back the collective bargaining rights of Idaho teachers
- Prohibits professional negotiations regarding such issues as class sizes, lesson
planning, and student health and safety - Requires that school districts advertise on behalf of professional liability insurance
providers - Ends the practice of issuing renewable contracts to teachers
- Allows trustees to reduce salaries and change teacher working conditions without
negotiations or due process - Eliminates the fact-finding process in professional negotiations
- Allows school districts to fire proven teachers without legitimate reasons or a fair
hearing - Takes away funding safeguards for school districts experiencing unexpected enrollment
declines
Senate Bill 1110
- Bases teacher performance pay on student test scores
- Establishes a complicated, vague and unproven pay scheme
- Requires local school districts to spend $89 million on bonuses over two years without
providing a source of state funding
Senate Bill 1184
- Reduces state funding to local school districts by $156 million over the next six years
- Requires individual “mobile computing devices” for high school students
- Authorizes school districts to reduce the teaching staff by up to 25 percent
- Mandates online courses for high school graduation
- Forces local school boards to offset funding cuts and pay for laptop computers by:
Increasing class sizes, - Cutting pay for teachers and other school employees,
- Shortening the school year,
- Eliminating extra-curricular activities and enrichment programs, and/or
- Raising local property taxes
from What's in the Luna Laws? published by Idahoans for Responsible Education Reform,
Maria Greeley, Treasurer
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