Kevin Richert
A popular unknown: Shortening the school week expands across Idaho
This fall, about 100,000 Idaho kids will attend a four-day school. The impacts on student performance are unclear. The savings for taxpayers are limited.
The four-day schools project: A second look at a growing trend
Idaho EdNews senior reporter Kevin Richert will spend the 2024-25 school year digging deep into four-day schools. And we want to hear from students, parents, teachers and school officials.
A deep dive into four-day schools — and researchers found contradictions
The move to a four-day school schedule delivers a variety of benefits, supporters say. Researchers instead found a gap between perception and reality.
Treasure Valley students attend first-ever fentanyl summit
Organizers say they want to get ahead of the fentanyl crisis before it can take root in Treasure Valley schools.
Idaho State touts fundraising increase
Idaho State received more than $18 million for the budget year that ended June 30, an increase of close to $4 million.
No stranger to change, Whitworth takes a high-profile (and changing) education post
From a Central Idaho ranch to Idaho State University to GOP politics to the state’s controller’s office. Joshua Whitworth’s circuitous career path has taken him to the top job at the State Board of Education.
Analysis: A hometown jury hands Boise State a resounding rebuke
For an institution as image-conscious as Boise State University, getting routed in open court is never a good look. Especially in this case — when jurors said administrators pushed Big City Coffee off campus in violation of the First Amendment.
‘There was no effort to get rid of her:’ Day eight in the Big City Coffee trial
President Marlene Tromp and a former member of her inner circle stuck to a recurring point Thursday: Both said they did not oust Big City Coffee from the Boise State University campus.
‘We care about what students think. It doesn’t make our choices for us.’ Tromp takes stand
The Boise State president is not a defendant in the $10 million Big City Coffee lawsuit, but she is nonetheless on trial — in the court of public opinion. Critics say the case fits into a larger narrative over a social justice agenda at Idaho’s largest university.
A look inside Christian nationalism — with an Idaho emphasis
The preacher of a Moscow-based fundamentalist church is determined to transform the politics of the Palouse, as part of a bigger campaign to make America an explicitly Christian nation. Schools are the centerpiece of this crusade.