Among the possibilities the Senate Education Committee is discussing: Not moving forward with SB 1113 at all. "I don't see any effort to move 1113 forward at this point," said committee Chairman John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene. "We may reformulate an RS. That RS could include just the task force. It could include some measure with delayed implementation. ... I guess it could be a rewrite of 1113 in almost its entirety. I don't know that that would satisfy members of the Senate, though."

Sen. Nicole LeFavour, D-Boise, asked if 1113 is to remain pulled, whether the panel also would pull back the two other bills in the school reform package, SB 1108 and SB 1110. "I would suggest to you that 1108 and 1110 are mutually exclusive of 1113, and they are past our ability to withdraw anything," Goedde replied. "They are in the House and have to be dealt with there."

Sen. Dean Mortimer, R-Idaho Falls, said, "Maybe we could have some discussion about the funding piece itself."  He said if class size funding formulas aren't changed, as SB 1113 had proposed to do to fund the reform plan, "There's only two other areas you can discuss. ... One is discretionary, and the other is salaries and benefits. ... Those are tough, tough decisions of how do you get that budget to balance." He said, "Each district seems to want that flexibility to do it on their own, as they see fit."