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PM: Miner Pete Marek, 53, RIP

Jerome High School sophomore Nick Greenlea works on a program called PLATO courseware at the school in preparation for taking the Idaho Standards Achievement Test’s language portion in Jerome on Monday. A school that fails to meet Annual Yearly Progress requirements under the federal No Child Left Behind Act faces a variety of corrective actions that could culminate in school restructuring or forced administrative changes. (AP Photo/The Times-News, Ashley Smith)



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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