Voices

The Mountain Home educator running for superintendent has a strong foundation and teaching background.

Tiered licensure for accountability and a career ladder are the best opportunity we will have in the foreseeable future to significantly increase pay for Idaho’s teachers.

Give people across the K–12 sector, especially those at the school-level, freedom to try new things.

Students in one Idaho school are taking dozens of field trips to educational sites around the world each school year.

This September we have the opportunity to learn from three outstanding education leaders: Nancy Grasmick, the former superintendent of the Maryland Public Schools; David Driscoll, the former Massachusetts Commissioner of Education; and Eric Smith, the former Florida Education Commissioner.

Trustee candidates have the right to be outraged that district leaders are giving special treatment to the Boise Education Association (BEA) and its endorsed candidates.

K-12 students are increasingly coming from homes that are less white, less rural and less wealthy.

The state is changing the name of next year’s standardized test from SBAC to ISAT 2.0. Why? It’s not useful to imply that they are equivalent in an atmosphere in which excessive confusion and misinformation already exists regarding the transition from one exam to another.

Three economists agree that public education has to get smart about spending in a reality where the status quo does not measure up.

Public schools in Idaho and across the nation should not be expected to do the impossible, nor should they be condemned when they fail the impossible.