House Education Chairman Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, said just now, "After visiting with leadership, we have decided to hold the hearings beginning next Tuesday morning." The two school reform bills that already have passed the Senate - SB 1108 and SB 1110 - will be considered by the House Education Committee starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, Nonini said; he's already reserved the Capitol Auditorium, the Statehouse's largest hearing room, for three days, though he said he hopes it won't take that full time. The hearings will run from 8-11 a.m.

Nonini said he initially thought he should wait until all three bills arrived, but with the third undergoing a rework in the Senate Education Committee, he said that "could be a week or more." Said Nonini, "We  just thought we should get the two bills we have moving."