Featured Series
Stories about Idaho’s educators, students and policy makers plus features on bright spots in Idaho education.
98 percent of Idaho teachers earn top marks on evaluations
In 2015, the Legislature tied a teacher’s ability to earn higher pay to performance on their evaluations.
Slideshow: EdNews Announces Summer Photo Contest Winner
Find out which photo was voted the best of the summer.
July Photo Contest! Send us your summer photos
Enter and become eligible for a $100 gift card and EdNews swag. Details are inside.
Families raise $21,000 to keep historic school open
Trustees voted to close the school down. Eight days later, patrons raised enough money to fund the school for at least one more year.
State review finds holes in alternative educator preparation program
The State Board of Education ultimately decides whether or not the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence adequately prepares professionals to teach.
Summer camp gets Canyon County kids excited about learning
Students participated in activities focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Teachers create lessons plans from award-winning TV series
Idaho Public Television partners with Idaho educators to develop curriculum for fourth graders based on the “Idaho Experience” series.
Canyon County’s education consortium celebrates 50 years of service
What was a financial gamble in 1969, the Canyon-Owyhee School Service Agency has provided 50 years of special education, CTE and alternative education for students in Homedale, Marsing, Notus, Parma and Wilder.
Seeking solutions for Idaho education
Journalists search for the truth and expose the problems. In a series we’ll publish next week, we are supporting those investigations with in-depth reports on what’s going right.
‘Poverty is our biggest challenge in education’
Decades of research highlight the long-running correlation between high poverty rates and low student performance — a “crisis” that’s become the “norm” in schools across the nation.