Goedde: Holding out hope…
Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on the debate and passage in the Senate today of a public school budget that includes historic cuts. Senate Education Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene, told Eye on Boise he's still holding out hope that Congress will approve a jobs bill by late spring or summer that could send another $117 million over two years to Idaho schools. If that happened, he said, it'd likely mean a special session to reverse some of the cuts senators approved today. "Sixty million dollars would go a long way toward plugging the holes that we've made," Goedde said.