State Board of Education

State Board job search will move quickly — and quietly

The State Board hopes to hire a successor to outgoing executive director Mike Rush within the next three weeks.

A State Board fixture plans his departure

Executive director Mike Rush has worked for the State Board of Education since 1986. The search is on, quickly, to find a successor.

State Board seeks to extend tax break

The tax credit — covering 50 percent of contributions to schools, libraries and museums — is slated to expire on Jan. 1, 2016.

Career ladder will increase salaries

More competitive, professional level teacher salaries will help attract individuals to the profession and provide incentives for effective teachers to stay in the classroom.

What’s next on tiered licensure plan?

At a Meridian hearing, speakers urged the state to slow down on the controversial proposal. But a State Board of Education member still hopes to have a plan ready for the 2015 Legislature.

Video: Talking State Board appointments

This week’s “Making the Grade” segment is all about the State Board of Education appointments, and the curious State Board of Education paper trail.

Those destroyed State Board applications …

Gov. Butch Otter’s office destroyed at least 15 applications for vacancies on the State Board of Education. Here’s what the state law says, and doesn’t say, on records retention.

A closer look at the State Board picks

Documents released to Idaho Education News by Gov. Butch Otter’s office shed some light on some — but not all — of the applicants for two State Board of Education vacancies. Some applications have already been destroyed, an Otter aide said Tuesday.

Otter fills State Board vacancies

David Hill and Debbie Critchfield are appointed to bring the State Board of Education back to full strength. They were chosen from a field of nine finalists, including three former legislators.