The House Education Committee has voted 13-5 in favor of SB 1108, the bill to remove most existing collective bargaining rights from Idaho teachers; eliminate the teacher early retirement incentive program; and remove the 99 percent funding protection that school districts now have when enrollment drops from one year to the next, replacing it with severance payments to teachers laid off in the fall. The bill already passed the Senate; it now moves to the full House for a vote. A substitute motion to send the bill to the House's amending order failed on a 5-13 vote.

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