The House Education Committee has opened its hearing this morning on SB 1184, the third school-reform bill, with state schools Supt. Tom Luna leading off. "This bill helps supply more tools to our teachers," Luna told the committee. "This bill is the bill that reforms our classrooms."

Committee Chairman Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, said after the superintendent, the committee will hear from education stakeholders: The Idaho Education Association, Idaho Association of School Administrators, and the Idaho School Boards Association, and then from Roger Brown, education adviser to Gov. Butch Otter, and then finally a wrapup from Luna before voting on the bill, which earlier passed the Senate after much debate. Nonini said the House, which is scheduled to convene at 10:30, will wait if the hearing takes longer, but he expects it to be done by that time.