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House Ed wraps up for day after nearly four hours of testimony, 6-1 against bills

House Education Chairman Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, presides over the House Education Committee hearing Tuesday on two school reform bills, SB 1108 on teacher contracts and SB 1110 on teacher pay for performance. The committee took four hours of testimony, and then broke until the following morning. (Betsy Russell)
House Education Chairman Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, presides over the House Education Committee hearing Tuesday on two school reform bills, SB 1108 on teacher contracts and SB 1110 on teacher pay for performance. The committee took four hours of testimony, and then broke until the following morning. (Betsy Russell)

After nearly four hours of testimony, without a break, House Education Committee Chairman Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, said, "I think we'll stop our committee at this point. We'll pick up at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning back down here." Nonini said the committee will take back up "right where we left off" on the signup list for testimony. Twenty-nine people testified today, only five of them supporting the bills, SB 1108 and SB 1110; that's nearly six-to-one against the measures.



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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