Featured Series
Stories about Idaho’s educators, students and policy makers plus features on bright spots in Idaho education.
Tackling hunger: These students put a food pantry in their school
Gaby Bobadilla and Dayana Medellin didn’t like that some of their peers were going hungry, so they put a food pantry in their high school.
White Pine trustees acknowledge second open meeting violation in five months
Trustees admitted Tuesday to secretly approving payouts for major facilities projects during a Jan. 22 executive session.
Former SDE director files whistleblower claim against Ybarra
Kelly Brady says state superintendent Sherri Ybarra fired her after Brady cooperated with a workplace misconduct investigation.
Low-performing online school posts unprecedented enrollment growth, again
The remote Southeast Idaho district’s home-learning program has added 2,500 students since 2016, far exceeding growth at any other district or charter in Idaho. It’s now Idaho’s largest virtual school.
Teacher, moonlighting as mayor, sees where education and community intersect
Marc Beitia has a unique view of the needs of his townfolk and their children.
Maps illustrate learning disparities between white and Latino students
Find out what’s happening in your school or district.
For kids and their parents, the reading journey starts and continues at home
Behind every score on the Idaho Reading Indicator, behind every intervention plan to help an at-risk student, there is a child’s story. And the parents’ story. Stories of struggles, successes and uncertainties.
Little embraces the literacy issue — for the long haul
Gov. Brad Little knows it will take a sustained effort to improve literacy in Idaho. But he says everything else in education will build off of it. “I can’t have them college and career ready if they’re not literate.”
All-day kindergarten takes off in Idaho. Is pre-K next?
Idaho’s literacy program is already reshaping early education — changing the school day for thousands of young children, and offering new options to their parents.
Two years in, teachers are still learning about Idaho’s new reading test
By and large, teachers say the new Idaho Reading Indicator provides better data and timelier information than its predecessor. But some teachers and parents concede the online format poses problems.