When Idaho Education Association Executive Director Robin Nettinga asked a group of Boise and Meridian teachers for their biggest concerns, the first two words that rang out were “jobs” and “demoralization.”
About 40 Treasure Valley teachers gathered at Boise High School on Monday for a public forum before lunching with lawmakers. Similar forums, minus the legislative lunch, were planned in five other cities across the state to discuss the impact of state schools chief Tom Luna’s Students Come First package and their hopes to overturn those “Luna laws” viaballot referendums in November.