The goal is to remove arbitrary standards and language, encourage positive student-staff relationships, and limit the policy’s impact on teaching time.
School Policy
Freeze on Idaho’s transgender athlete ban faces new challenges
Defenders of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act are petitioning a federal district court to reconsider blocking enforcement of the law.
How federal vaccine mandates affect Idaho education
Staff of at least two schools and a baker’s dozen Head Start programs will have to get the jab.
Idaho joins lawsuit against White House over trans student protections
The move marks an effort to shield the state’s transgender athlete ban from a legal challenge.
Analysis: School trustees could mandate staff COVID vaccines. But would they?
There is nothing in Gov. Brad Little’s executive order that would stop school trustees and administrators from doing what the Treasure Valley’s hospitals did a week ago.
Feds hand down equity-focused rules for coronavirus relief spending
The new rules are meant to prevent states from cutting funding in districts that are receiving a larger share of per-pupil funding from the feds, effectively zeroing out built-in equity measures.
Education indoctrination task force members: updated list and bios
Members include an Idaho Freedom Foundation employee, a charter school leader who pushed to use the Bible in public schools and a reverend who appears to be a North Idaho evangelical Christian leader.
Students protest proposed restrictions on racism, sexism in Idaho school curricula
A proposal passed through a legislative committee shortly before a coronavirus-induced recess. The proposal could be on the docket as early as Tuesday when the legislative session resumes.
Miguel Cardona confirmed as education secretary
Senators voted 64 to 33 to approve Cardona, a former fourth-grade teacher and school principal. Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch both voted no.
Schools must still give standardized tests this year, Biden administration says
But schools won’t be held accountable for the results — and states could give shorter, remote, or delayed versions of the exams.