Kari Overall, an educator from South Junior High, will take over for Penni Cyr, who is retiring after six years serving in the leadership role of Idaho’s teachers union.
Funding formula committee resumes its long slog
The panel of 10 state lawmakers is staring at a huge task: unraveling and rewriting a formula used to carve up nearly $1.7 billion in K-12 money. Not surprisingly, committee members are in no rush to finish the job.
Ybarra releases latest draft of Idaho’s ESSA compliance plan
Idaho is on its sixth draft. The state faces a Sept. 18 deadline to submit the final plan to the feds.
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AP: Balukoff considering another run for governor
Olson named interim superintendent in Coeur d’Alene
AP: Trump special assistant considers run for Congress
Grocery tax adversaries get their day in court
Charters earn mixed opinions and varied student results
Charter schools represent both the best and the worst in terms of school performance and are favored by some, shunned by others.
Idaho charter schools underserve minority and poor populations
Many Idaho charter schools still aren’t offering programs for poorer students, including free-and-reduced lunch and busing.
Funding formula committee resumes work Tuesday
It’s the second round of summer school for the 10 lawmakers who will try to rework Idaho’s 23-year-old K-12 funding formula.
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The paradox of ‘grit’
Idaho disses some of its best high schools
Education news around Idaho
This week’s briefs feature Linda Clark’s election as president of the State Board of Education, the Governor’s Cup Scholarships winners, kids who took home prizes at the Invention Convention and Entrepreneurship competition and STEM grants awarded to local libraries.
Education groups feel disrespected over lack of ESSA participation
ISBA Executive Director Karen Echeveria is afraid Idaho’s ESSA plan will be a disaster without buy-in from the education groups affected by the federal law.
ISAT, SAT scores remain virtually flat
The State Board of Education took a quick and cursory look at the numbers Thursday afternoon. The state will release more comprehensive ISAT results in the fall.
As dual-credit program grows, lawmakers get an unexpected bill
Lawmakers will have to take $6.1 million out of savings to cover dual credit classes in 2016-17. And as high school students continue to enroll in college classes, lawmakers might have to make another withdrawal next year.
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AP: Balukoff considering another run for governor
Boise School District trustee and businessman A.J. Balukoff says he hopes to make a decision this fall. He was the Democratic nominee for governor in 2014.
Olson named interim superintendent in Coeur d’Alene
Former Boise Superintendent Stan Olson will lead the Coeur d’Alene School District through June 2018, while trustees search for a long-term successor.
AP: Trump special assistant considers run for Congress
Layne Bangerter is considering a run for the open seat in Idaho’s 1st Congressional District.
Grocery tax adversaries get their day in court
Constitutional questions aside, repealing the sales tax on groceries carries a $50 million-a-year impact on K-12 and higher education.
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The paradox of ‘grit’
Maybe we have to teach kids that asking for help is okay, that letting go isn’t giving up, and that sometimes the only pathway to peace might also mean coming face to face with our own shadow and embracing it with love, empathy and compassion.
Idaho disses some of its best high schools
The State Department of Education has been providing data to the U.S. News and World Report that is inaccurate and unfair to some of the state’s top high schools.