{"id":13045,"date":"2012-11-12T17:03:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T00:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=13045"},"modified":"2012-11-12T17:03:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T00:03:41","slug":"idahos-attorney-general-says-schools-have-one-month-to-distribute-teacher-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/11\/12\/idahos-attorney-general-says-schools-have-one-month-to-distribute-teacher-bonuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho&#8217;s Attorney General Says Schools Have One Month To Distribute Teacher Bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Attorney General&#8217;s office says school districts have until December 15, 2012 to distribute roughly $38 million in teacher bonuses that were part of an <a title=\"Voters Overturn Luna\u2019s Education Laws, Reject Propositions 1, 2 And 3\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/maps\/map-voters-overturn-lunas-education-laws-reject-propositions-1-2-and-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">education law voters overturned<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Idaho Voters Resoundingly Reject Propositions 1, 2 And 3\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/propositions-1-2-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Voters rejected Proposition 2<\/a> on Nov. 6.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the provision that asked voters whether to uphold or repeal Idaho&#8217;s pay for performance plan the Legislature approved in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/idahos-teacher-bonuses-in-question-after-prop-2-no-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">we reported last week<\/a>, school districts will have that bonus money by Nov. 15, but until today, it was unclear if districts had a deadline to distribute that bonus pay to teachers who earned it over the last school year.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the written opinion from Idaho&#8217;s Deputy Attorney General Andrew Snook:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.4444444444444%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/514325-11-12-ag-teacher-bonus-letter.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"11 12 AG Teacher Bonus Letter (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Attorney General&#8217;s office says school districts have until December 15, 2012 to distribute roughly $38 million in teacher bonuses that were part of an education law voters overturned last week. Voters rejected Proposition 2 on Nov. 6.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the provision that asked voters whether to uphold or repeal Idaho&#8217;s pay for performance plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[206],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13053,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045\/revisions\/13053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}