A group of parents and representatives of the Idaho Education Association has filed paperwork with the state to launch a referendum on SB 1108 and 1110, the two bills signed into law this week on teacher contracts and teacher merit pay as part of state schools Supt. Tom Luna's school reform package. "We're in the exploratory phase, and no final decisions have been made," said Sherri Wood, IEA president. "But we filed initial paperwork with the Secretary of State in order to start the process and preserve our options to refer these bad laws for a citizens' veto."

The group would have to gather 47,432 signatures to get a referendum on the 2012 general election ballot, and submit them within 60 days of the end of the legislative session. You can read its full announcement here. If the group gets a referendum on the ballot, it'd be only the fifth referendum in Idaho's history; just one of those, in 1936, succeeded in rejecting legislation by a vote of the people.