Phil Homer, legislative liaison for the Idaho Association of School Administrators, told the Senate Education Committee, "We strongly disagree with the funding mechanism" in SB 1184. "As you might understand, our association was quite surprised," he said, that the "Students Come First" plan would be funded by shifting money from salary-based apportionment. He said the group also objects to that source as the funding source for the pay-for-performance bill, which the group supported. Homer said he hoped there was "a better way."

Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, asked Homer, "If not salary-based apportionment, where do we go, what do we tap into?" Homer answered, "I do not have the answer to that question. That's the reason I would ask for the opportunity for a group of us to sit down and dialogue. Maybe there is no other way, but maybe there is."

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