Day: March 26, 2014
Otter signs pieces of the K-12 budget
Still sitting on Gov. Butch Otter’s desk: a bill to provide teachers a 1 percent raise and $15.8 million in leadership premiums. Otter has until April 4 to act on the bill.
Garden Valley names new superintendent
Marc Gee comes from Eastern Idaho’s Sugar-Salem schools — where he graduated high school, and returned to teach and work as a principal, assistant principal and federal programs director.
State Board vacancy still on hold
Gov. Butch Otter hopes to name a new State Board of Education member in April. The post has been vacant since November.