Day: May 28, 2015

Video: Making the Grade, 5.27.15

This week’s topics: Homedale’s transition to a four-day calendar, the discrimination complaint against charter schools — and more.

Garden Valley installs firearms in school

Trustees in the remote district agreed to a safety plan that includes arming teachers because sheriff response time could take 45 minutes and “the potential loss of life could be catastrophic.”

State terminates school improvement director

Greg Alexander, who worked at the State Department of Education since early 2012, will not be replaced.

Lawyering up: One district’s expensive year

Here’s how the Blaine County School District ran up more than $600,000 in legal fees — and why it might be a fluke.