It’s an honor to become your elected Representative and I want you to feel free to contact me at the Statehouse, by phone (343-1608) or by email (john@johngannon.org). Your views and thoughts are very important in helping to formulate policy.

 Merit Pay for Educators Didn’t Work for Our Neighborhoods

Teacher merit pay was in effect until the November, 2012 election when voters rejected the program, but the issue may come up again in the 2013 legislative session. Before any merit pay program …

May 22, 2012

We have a lot of wonderful dedicated people in our schools and I wish school critics could have seen them hard at work last Saturday. Grace Jordan teacher assistant Heidi Inman and Whitney Elementary aide Celeste Lewis and other Boise school personnel and students volunteered last Saturday afternoon to make a map of the world painting at Grace Jordan Elementary on the Boise Bench. No publicity, no television, just good people volunteering their time, who I came across.