Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today's House passage of SB 1110 on teacher merit pay, the second bill in state schools Supt. Tom Luna's three-bill school reform package. The first bill, SB 1108 on teacher contracts, passed yesterday, while the third bill, SB 1113, remains stalled in a Senate committee. Luna hailed the passage of the performance-pay bill today as "another monumental step toward reforming our public education system,” and said, “With this bill, Idaho now has the most comprehensive statewide pay-for-performance plan in the country." Opponents of the bill argued the state has no way to pay for it; it will cost $38 million its first year, 2013, and $51.3 million each year thereafter.