The Idaho Legislature’s K-12 Educational System Interim Committee adjourned its meeting yesterday without any votes and announced it wouldn’t meet again – leaving hanging the question of what, if anything, the panel was recommending back to the Legislature after its three meetings this fall. Now, Idaho Education News reporter Clark Corbin reports that the panel’s two co-chairs, Senate Education Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d’Alene, left, and House Education Chairman Reed DeMordaunt, R-Eagle, right (Idaho EdNews photo) say the panel’s work isn’t done. Instead, they’re having a report compiled by the Legislative Services Office on the committee’s work, including recommendations from stakeholder groups who testified to the committee during its meetings, and plan to share the report with the rest of the committee. Then, members can use it to draft bills or proposals for next year’s legislative session.

“This was not an attempt to replicate the Legislature,” DeMordaunt told Corbin. “This was an opportunity for us in a smaller subset to review what happened and share learning with our colleagues in the greater body.” You can read Corbin’s full report here.