Kevin Richert of IdahoED NEWS analyzes the historic Idaho Senate vote rejecting the education budget:

JFAC must write a new budget — and as a matter of procedure, the committee will have to come out with a different bottom-line number than the $1,308,365,400 general fund budget proposed Wednesday. That may be little more than a cosmetic change, Cameron said. But with most other money already allocated for 2013-14, the committee may have only one direction to go: downward. As Cameron noted in debate, Wednesday’s public school budget proposal was still $110 million below the 2009 public schools budget. But the thornier issue, illustrated in Wednesday morning’s debate, is not the bottom-line dollar amount. The debate will likely focus on the language of the school budget — and whether a rewrite would again direct money into professional development, pay for performance, classroom technology and the teacher salary grid. More here.

Question: It sounds as though the Goedde-led move to reject the Education Budget, supported by Nonini, Vick & Nuxoll in North Idaho, will mean less dollars for education. Thoughts?