2007 Senate Bill 418 (Require MESSA to disclose claims history data ) (House Roll Call 442)
Passed in the House (56 to 53) on September 30, 2007, to require MESSA, the MEA teacher union's insurance affiliate, to release individual school district claims history data. This information is said to be necessary to allow other insurance providers to bid on a district's health insurance purchases, but releasing it is bitterly opposed by MESSA and the MEA. The bill would also allow schools and local governments to form health insurance purchasing pools, and prescribe standards and regulations for these. Its passage occurred as part of a deal to avoid reducing state spending in the 2007-2008 Fiscal Year by imposing $1.5 billion in tax increases, including an increase in the state income tax from 3.9 percent to 4.35 percent (House Bill 5194) and imposing a 6 percent tax on many personal and business services (House Bill 5198). [History, Amendments & Comments]
The vote was 56 in favor, 53 opposed, and 1 not voting
(House Roll Call 442 at House Journal 101)
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1) Re: STELLAR GOVERNMENT TEACHER [by Joy on May 4, 2009]Peter Perkins was a Washington teacher not Idaho. There are two John R. Rogers High Schools in Washington. The one Mr. Perkins taught at was in the city of Spokane. The alleged 'twisting nipples' photo is news to me. I will vouch that he is no more a pervert or creep than he was an Idaho school teacher. Reading some of the articles about him I can't believe how happy people are to misrepresent the facts to make him look like a predator and then actually encourage violence against him, as I have read from other articles. This man's life is being ruined and people are salivating over it. Mr. Perkins was the best teacher I've had. Imagine if YOU were portrayed as a monster. Now there are students out there who actually believe this homophobic slander against him and are hurt because they think they misplaced their trust in him. It makes me sick.
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In Reply To: STELLAR GOVERNMENT TEACHER by Anonymous Citizen
Perkins was actually a teacher a teacher at Rogers High School located in Spokane, WA.
I knew Perkins personally as he was my freshman history teacher and the yearbook adviser. I had suspected that he may be gay, but this damning evidence of him being a pedophile have really shocked me. He was friendly, nice, and easy to get along with; definitely one of my favorite teachers, which is why this news has really hit me hard.
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A government school teacher in Idaho used school computers to talk about his fantasies of having sex with (and raping) teenagers. Peter Perkins taught social studies at Rogers High School. He was also photographed "twisting the nipples" of bare-chested high school boys in a bathroom. He wrote about his fantasies of raping a student, used district computers to have explicit online chats and download graphic files.
Peter Perkins was removed from the classroom a year ago ... but he is still being paid. Yep. Taxpayers of the Spokane government school district have paid $69,000 in the past year for this creep's salary and benefits ... for doing absolutely nothing ... which, by the way, pretty well describes what many other government school teachers are being paid to do.
Oh and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has yet to determine whether or not Perkins' teaching certificate should be revoked. Golly, ya think? That's government for you.
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