Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on how a controversial school reform plan that calls for larger classes, fewer teachers and more technology may be pulled back for changes at the urging of a Coeur d'Alene senator, after it narrowly cleared the Senate Education Committee last week. Sen. John Goedde, R-Coeur d'Alene, who chairs the committee, met with representatives of three key education groups Monday - teachers, school administrators, and school board members - for more than six hours, and came out with a long list of possible changes to the bill. Goedde said he wasn't trying to reach a consensus, but wants to "make whatever moves forward a better bill."

 The move came as parents, students, teachers and others rallied across the state Monday against the plan; more than a thousand people turned out for a rally in a Boise park across from the state Capitol, and in Coeur d'Alene, more than 200 marched down Sherman Avenue through downtown amid occasional snow flurries. Well-attended rallies also were held in eight other locations across the state.