Day: May 23, 2013
Business group will no longer be ‘missing voice’
Behind new leadership, the 85 members of Idaho Business for Education are poised to be an active participant in the debate about improving education in Idaho.
Tuesday elections tally: $130.2 million
In the crowded Vallivue School District and elsewhere, voters generally said yes to bond issues and school levies.
Retiree hopes to raffle away Nampa’s deficit
A nonprofit group hopes to raise $4.3 million to help ease the Nampa School District’s fiscal crunch. The plan: raffle off 40 homes in Nampa — at $100 per ticket, and 2,500 tickets per home.
Nonini campaigns in School Board races
It is a little like deja vu all over again. State Sen. Bob Nonini, no stranger to weighing in during election season, signed a campaign letter last week endorsing two Post Falls School Board candidates.
A Middleton School Board election do-over
Twenty-three Middleton voters were given the wrong ballots Tuesday — and were allowed to vote in what turned out to be a deadlocked School Board race. Canyon County will have to hold the election again.
Freshman academy gets kids back on track
16 Caldwell teens who were at risk of failing in school, graduated this week — a year earlier than their middle school classmates who took the traditional route — because of their year at the academy.