BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Changes to Idaho’s school funding system might have put the state in violation of a constitutional requirement to maintain a uniform and thorough system of public and free schools, a report by a nonpartisan organization said.
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Chief state school officers from all over the country came up to Washington this week to hear lawmakers explain why one of their top federal priorities —an honest-to-goodness reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as opposed…
Continue Reading →Published Online: March 26, 2012
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Senate approved a public schools budget for 2013 that bumps up the minimum teacher salary and funds new education reforms, including merit pay bonuses and laptops.
State senators vot…
Published Online: March 26, 2012
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The state is giving Idaho high schools some homework.
Schools vying to be first when Idaho starts phasing in laptops for every 9th through 12th grader have to write a five-page, double-spaced …
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A defunct Idaho charter school exhausted its appeals Monday in a legal battle with state officials who barred the use of the Bible and other religious texts as a historical teaching tool in the classroom.
The U.S. Supreme Court…
Published Online: March 23, 2012
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill that would lend a hand to high school students trying to get a head start on college has cleared the Idaho House.
House lawmakers voted 59-6 Friday to establish the “8 in 6 Program,” wh…
Published Online: March 20, 2012
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation to help charter schools with the cost of bonding for buildings was pulled from the Idaho House floor before a vote.
Republican Rep. Reed DeMordaunt requested that the bill return t…
Two years into the implementation of the federal School Improvement Grant program, state officials are generally optimistic about its potential, but have a lot of ideas for perfecting it, according to a pair of reports released today by the Center on…
Continue Reading →Published Online: March 15, 2012
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation to lift Idaho’s cap on charter schools is headed to the Governor’s desk.
The Idaho Senate 22-12 voted to eliminate the provision limiting the number of new charter schools to six p…
Published Online: March 15, 2012
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A proposal advanced Thursday by an Idaho House committee would help charter schools with the cost of bonding for buildings to house their students.
Republican Rep. Reed DeMordaunt’s measure ai…