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Caldwell trustees grilled over shakeup

Residents packed a Monday night board meeting demanding answers, the Idaho Press-Tribune reported — but district officials remain mum.

Montana was forced to make its SBAC test optional — and it will fall well short of the feds’ requirements to test 95 percent of its students.

It didn’t take Caldwell trustees long to make big administrative changes Monday. How does that square with Idaho open meeting law?

This week’s topics: the Caldwell School District shakeup, teacher evaluations and a State Board of Education proposal to boost college enrollment.

In 2013, the national high school graduation rate was 81 percent. Idaho doesn’t factor into this equation. And here’s why.

The State Board hopes to hire a successor to outgoing executive director Mike Rush within the next three weeks.

Republicans urged the use of the Bible “for reference purposes,” but backed away from encouraging optional Bible classes.

This week’s topics: the ongoing delays in grading Idaho’s SBAC, the Idaho GOP’s Bible-in-the-classroom resolution — and more.

Laura Baker — Horseshoe Bend’s clerk, treasurer and business manager — will complete a commission term that ends in January 2017.

The state has up to $1 million to spend to provide technology education and IT certification training to students and adults.