Proposition 3 - 2012 Idaho General Election

Huckleberries: A cage match to decide schools’ direction?

January 8, 2012

Huckleberries knows how to settle the fight over the radical online education plan forced on Idaho’s schoolchildren by Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna and legislative accomplices last year – and subject to a November referendum. Stage a winner-take-all cage match between Luna and Post Falls instructor Ann Rosenbaum. In one corner, we’d have Luna, a former school board member who got his college degree online. In the other corner, Rosenbaum, a former Marine military police officer who escaped a car bomb in Iraq. New York Times reporter Matt Richtel featured Rosenbaum and two other teachers in an article about the controversy Tuesday.

Otter Plans To Fight Ed Referendum

January 5, 2012 8:58 a.m.

Otter Plans To Fight Ed Referendum

New York Times looks at Idaho’s school-tech reforms, teacher objections

January 4, 2012 9:15 a.m.

New York Times looks at Idaho’s school-tech reforms, teacher objections

NYTimes Spotlights Idaho Education

January 4, 2012 8:26 a.m.

NYTimes Spotlights Idaho Education

2nd Luna Recall Ready To Launch

December 27, 2011 9:51 a.m.

2nd Luna Recall Ready To Launch

Luna Claim: I Discussed Ed Reforms

December 16, 2011 9:33 a.m.

Luna Claim: I Discussed Ed Reforms

Task force tweaks education reform

December 14, 2011

BOISE – After six months of study, a statewide task force Tuesday called for buying all Idaho high school students laptops rather than tablets, phasing them in school-by-school rather than grade-by-grade, and sharply upping the state’s investment in on-the-job teacher training to accompany the new technology push. “The work that has been done here is historic,” said state schools Superintendent Tom Luna, who chaired the task force charged with figuring out how to implement the technology boosts in his Students Come First school reform program, which lawmakers approved last year. “We all had the same goal, and that is to assure that we’re preparing our students for the 21st century world that they’ll live in.”