Featured Series

Stories about Idaho’s educators, students and policy makers plus features on bright spots in Idaho education.

Program teaches low-income families literacy and health

Adults and kids learn about food groups, nutrition and budgeting.

Across Idaho, schools struggle with low immunization rates

It has always been easy for parents to say no to child vaccinations — a policy reflected in statistics. This fall, the opt-out rules are even more relaxed.

Movie theater makeover

A Blackfoot charter school moves into a stomping ground from my youth.

Safety expert, educators express concerns over Ybarra security plan

Critics say she developed a $21 million plan without input from key leaders and it conflicts with security plans already in place.

Boise elementary switches to new way of learning

More collaboration and projects are on tap at Adams Elementary.

Camp creates the connection between garden and kitchen

kids learn how to grow fruits and veggies, cook and eat healthy.

A teen who loves pigs starts new program at Caldwell High

Meet Kinley Schleicher and her six pigs.

Slideshow: Filer educator wins EdNews photo contest

Meet the EdNews summer photo contest winner and check out the photo gallery.

Caldwell Library gives books to migrant kids

These children face interrupted cultural and language barriers and social isolation — all factors that inhibit a child’s ability to learn basic literacy skills before starting school.