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Denney: No Saturday session, House will debate school reform today

House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke, left, talks with House Speaker Lawerence Denney, right, before Friday morning's House session, at which the House is set to debate the final bill in the school-reform package. (Betsy Russell)
House Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke, left, talks with House Speaker Lawerence Denney, right, before Friday morning's House session, at which the House is set to debate the final bill in the school-reform package. (Betsy Russell)

House Speaker Lawerence Denney says he's no longer looking at a Saturday session in the House this weekend. "I don't think we are," he said. Added Assistant Majority Leader Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, "I think we're caught up pretty well." Even if the House is forced to read every bill from here on out, Denney said, "I think we're done next week."

This morning, the House will take up SB 1184, the third and biggest school-reform bill in state schools Supt. Tom Luna's "Students Come First" package. The bill is 24 pages long.

Betsy Z. Russell

Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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