Day: August 1, 2013
Schools’ star ratings show improvement
Ninety-one schools — nearly 15 percent of the state’s schools — received the highest possible ranking in Idaho’s star ratings, announced Thursday. That’s an increase from 78 five-star schools a year earlier.
Parents are the state’s education heroes
Without support of parents — as classroom volunteers, legislative advocates, activity boosters, and levy voters — public schools would collapse.
Nampa union leader takes Boise job
Nampa Education Association President Mandy Simpson is leaving the state’s third-largest district, for a job in the Boise School District. “I can’t afford to stay in the Nampa School District,” Simpson said in an email to fellow union members.
The campaign money trail: an early look
Who was Gov. Butch Otter’s biggest campaign benefactor this year? And how much — or how little — has state superintendent Tom Luna collected this year? The latest campaign finance reports yield some interesting answers.