Idahoans OK $107.8M In Levies

Voters in 36 Idaho school districts approved $107.8 million in school levies Tuesday night. Four levies and one bond issue failed. The results come as the Legislature is considering school budgets for 2012-13 and 2013-14. A pair of competing bills to cut the personal property tax on business supplies and equipment: a partial repeal costing $18 million to $19 million, and a full repeal that could eventually total up to $120 million. A few headlines from around the state:

• The biggest winner . The Coeur d’Alene School District. Voters approved a two-year, $27 million levy.  “I’m pretty happy,” Superintendent Hazel Bauman told the Spokane Spokesman-Review . “It’s absolutely a wonderful blessing to have a community so supportive.”
• Easy wins . Generally speaking, school levies need only a simple majority to pass. In many districts, it wasn’t even close. Twenty-seven levies passed with 60 percent of more of the vote. Fourteen shattered the 70 percent plateau.
• Full IdahoED NEWS break-down by Kevin Richert here

Question: Does this prove that average Idahoans value education more than the Idaho Legislature does?