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Matter of Opinion

Shadow land

As today's editorial was being written Tuesday afternoon, reporter Betsy Russell was writing from the S-R's Boise office that the Idaho Board of Education may have violated that state's open meetings law to discuss canceling the statewide standardized test for Idaho students next year. Public officials' fear of sunshine seems to know no bounds.

UPDATE: Here's the article on the Idaho matter.



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