Teacher: Don’t Tolerate Mediocrity

Troy teacher Renae Bafus has started a statewide conversation over school funding. She wrote an open letter to state superintendent Sherri Ybarra, discussing the crisis in her cash-strapped school district. Ybarra responded, saying she would push to restore K-12 funding to 2009 levels — before the Great Recession triggered an unprecedented series of budget cuts. Bafus says the superintendent should aim higher. “A defining movement is upon us,” Bafus wrote this week. “Idaho kids have one shot at their education and the time is ripe to push, like never before, for education. Idaho cannot continue to tolerate mediocrity”/ Kevin Richert , Idaho Education News. More here.

Question: Will anyone on high listen to this plea?