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Goedde: Holding out hope…

Senators, including Senate Education Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene, leave their seats Monday night after the two-hour debate on the public schools budget, which passed, 27-8. (Betsy Russell)
Senators, including Senate Education Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene, leave their seats Monday night after the two-hour debate on the public schools budget, which passed, 27-8. (Betsy Russell)

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.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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