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Some Idahoans, especially parents of school-aged children, don’t have time to become experts on education policy creation (Legislature) and implementation (classroom practice). 

With the legislative session starting this week, we encouraged two moms who know their way around parenting and policy to help parents navigate the discussions and jargon with a podcast: <...


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Some school leaders are talking about putting measures for supplemental funding and construction projects on the ballot.

Others aren’t.

“We won’t run anything in May,” Fremont County Superintendent Brandon Ferris told EdNews earlier this week.

Fremont County joined five other Idaho districts to go a combined zero for six in passing school bond issues last...


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The Legislature’s budget-setting Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee (JFAC) didn’t take action on revenue targets as scheduled.

On Friday morning, the committee pulled an agenda item to consider and vote on the targets.

JFAC’s co-chairs told reporters following the meeting that two committee members were absent, and they wanted to offer more time to consider ...


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Dear Idaho Lawmakers,

As you begin the legislative session, I want to thank you for your commitment to public education.  As Idaho’s largest school district, West Ada serves nearly 40,000 students and employs close to 5,000 dedicated educators and staff. The decisions you make during this session have a direct and meaningful impact on our ...


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Results from the new version of the Idaho Reading Indicator show that just over 57% of students in kindergarten through third grade are reading at or above grade level.

But some districts and charters far surpassed that metric on what state leaders say is a harder test, requiring students to read on-screen text back to a computer instead of selecting the right answe...


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