Even before legislators unveiled their last-ditch plan to save broadband in high schools, the leaders of the House and Senate acknowledged some schools will struggle to make the plan work. “Some rural districts may have a difficult time engaging suitable providers,” House Speaker Scott Bedke and Senate President Pro Tem Brent Hill said in emails to fellow lawmakers, obtained Wednesday by Idaho Education News. “We hope to provide special help to those school districts to acquire adequate services as a group.” Bedke and Hill sent similarly worded emails to their colleagues last weekend — laying out the groundwork of what has now emerged as the Legislature’s stopgap plan to replace the floundering Idaho Education Network/Kevin Richert, IDEDNEWS.org. More here.