With no debate and not a single “no” vote, the Senate has just passed, one after the other, all seven pieces of the public school budget, the largest single piece of Idaho’s state budget. The bills add up to a 6.8 percent increase in state funding for schools next year, but with other, follow-up measures that still are on the way, the full increase will be 7.4 percent.

The seven House-passed bills, after each notching a 35-0 Senate vote, now go to Gov. Butch Otter.