Little: Ed reform bill likely to pass, problems could be fixed ‘down the road’

Lt. Gov. Brad Little, who serves as president of the Senate, was asked this morning about SB 1184, the new school-reform bill that cleared the Senate Education Committee late yesterday. “I think it’ll pass,” he said. “They traded off the denomination, the number of positions, in essence to respond to people’s complaints that it was too restrictive, so now it’s less restrictive. … I support the concept of reforming public education, of allowing more tools, of improving technology. … Are there some details of it that I haven’t fallen in love with? Yes.” But he said with the time frames laid out in the bill, “If we run into those problems and they need to be changed, they can be changed down the road.”