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Get details on grant money for nutrition programs, Idaho’s college savings program and new board members for the STEM Action Center Foundation.
School boards are in various stages of the hiring process. Idaho Falls narrowed its list of finalists on Thursday.
The State Department of Education is looking for a new communications director, and registration is open for the SDE’s prevention conference geared toward keeping Idaho schools and students safe.
Keeping sanitation at the forefront was crucial to keeping Emmett schools open this year.
Case numbers fluctuated only slightly on Idaho’s largest campuses, including Brigham Young University-Idaho, which remains the state’s campus coronavirus hotspot.
While Idaho’s overall graduation rate jumped by the highest margin in five years, some seniors went missing or dropped out.
Also the State Department of Education is looking for summer partners to help provide free food for kids.
Eric Popely, a now-former employee at Highland High School, is suspected of inappropriately touching a student.
Parents of former students, a former teacher, and one current student, say the district doesn’t provide sufficient services for English Language Learners or students with disabilities.
School leaders say shutdowns exposed a need they were unaware of — “It has been a whole new world for us.”