BOISE â The Idaho House late Tuesday passed all three bills authorizing federal aid to help the stateâs struggling child care industry, sending the long-stalled measures to the Senate.
âItâs really important for our low-income families to be able to return to the workforce,â Rep. Caroline Nilsson Troy, R-Genesee, the billsâ sponsor, told the House. âWe canât afford to lose any more of those child care facilities. ⦠This has really become probably the tightest sticking point in the state, really, for our state workforce to return to work.
The funds had been stalled for much of the legislative session, prompting concerned child care providers and parents, many with babies, toddlers or young kids in tow, to fill the Capitol rotunda and gather with strollers on the Capitol steps on Monday to urge lawmakers to approve the funds. Day care centers across the Treasure Valley closed for the day to focus on getting the message to lawmakers.
The Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee breezed through one big education budget Tuesday morning, then wrangled over another. First, lawmakers approved a $1.1 billion teacher salaries bill that was actually larger than the budget House members voted down two weeks ago. The new budget puts an additional $1 million into teacher training, while fully funding a […]
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State of Maine: Concept draft vagueness weakens the process
Welcome to a legislative rabbit hole the concept draft. It is a way of submitting legislation that is much abused, though it had merit as originally designed. What if this newspaper’s editor accepted “concept columns”? Title: “Concept Drafts.” Column, in its entirety: “Concept drafts may be good or bad.” It states a point of view but doesn’t give readers their money’s worth.
Smoke-filled rooms, back room deals, ramming things through or shoving things down people’s throats are highly overrated. The process from the outside may be hard to follow, but there is almost always a defensible explanation for what happens in Augusta, when, and why. Legislators individually and the Legislature collectively follow the rules. It is too easy to be called out by the loyal opposition if they don’t.
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