House, Senate budgets have big differences on education

This year? Not so much. 

The education budget provides a good example of the type of battle lines being drawn. 

Senators have proposed changing the so-called "teacher tenure" system to one that would see teachers sign contracts of between one and three years. Educator groups have objected to that system, saying it gives teachers too little certainty about their long-term prospects. 

The House put its teacher evaluation system in its version of the budget.

"We're apparently a long way apart," said Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, a co-chairman of the House budget subcommittee on education.