You can almost imagine what went through Kent Stokes' mind while he attended Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter's latest Capital for a Day celebration at Kamiah last week. As Otter pitched his education reforms, his budget plan and his overall theory of accountability, the Mountain View School District superintendent might have been contemplating how Otter, former state schools Superintendent Tom Luna and the GOP-led Legislature had siphoned off dollars needed in the classroom into a growing Boise-based bureaucracy. Now Idaho distributes its school dollars dripping in strings, red tape and top-down mandates. Perhaps he was remembering that, under Otter, the state's political leadership spent much of its time engaged in open hostilities against educators/Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

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