Idaho EdNews Podcasts

A deep dive into the debate over Idaho’s reading test, the death of Supt. Ybarra’s office budget and the implications for the classroom.

Over the course of just 20 hours this week, Ybarra saw two of her legislative initiatives fail.

Private school scholarships, school election bills, the latest election filings and more.

Senate Education approved new K-12 public school science standards in full, potentially ending a contentious, three-year debate.

On this week’s show: a look at the state’s 48-year-old sex education law, and the proposal to change it.

For the second straight year, legislators voted to remove references to global warming and human impact on the environment from a proposed slate of K-12 science standards.

Two days of politically charged science standards hearings shook up the Idaho Legislature this week.

Catch up on an important week of education budget hearings at the Statehouse.

This week, we take a closer look at teacher salaries and a wild week for a prominent high school principal in New Plymouth.

This week we break down Gov. Otter’s State of the State address and discuss what happens next on the education front.