school funding

Mortimer backs 7.4 percent budget increase

First-year Senate Education Committee chairman supports the funding increase from Gov. Butch Otter’s budget request.

Statehouse roundup, 2.12.15: New anti-SBAC bill, and more

A new anti-SBAC bill surfaces, while the tiered teacher licensure/career ladder bill is on hold until next week.

Schools brace for steep cut in timber program money

Congress failed to reauthorize a 2000 law that netted some $7.2 million for schools in Idaho timber country.

Idaho schools — and their heavy reliance on state funding

Legislative spending decisions have a make-or-break impact on Idaho’s schools. A new federal report puts the situation in perspective.

Budget writers push Ybarra for more details

Ybarra repeats call to increase school funding by 6.4 percent, but JFAC members tried unsuccessfully to get her to reveal details of her plan to pay teachers.

JFAC begins reviewing education budgets

Superintendent Sherri Ybarra set to give budget request on Thursday.

Ybarra seeks 6.4 percent school funding increase

Ybarra’s request is for $14 million less than Gov. Butch Otter’s.

Otter calls for 7.4 percent increase in K-12 funding

Otter would direct nearly $32 million to increasing teacher pay through the career ladder salary proposal.

Idaho’s supplemental levy bill drops slightly

Still, across urban and rural Idaho, school property tax levies are as commonplace as ever

Idaho’s $1 billion school levy bill

Since 2007 — and during Gov. Butch Otter’s tenure — Idaho schools have backfilled budgets with more than $1 billion in supplemental property tax levies.