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State Board job search will move quickly — and quietly

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.

This week’s topics: Garden Valley’s firearms policy, delayed ISAT results and more.

There are several reasons for the spike. For one thing, the state and Boise’s school foundation is helping students cover the cost of the tests.

Did West Ada trustee Carol Sayles divulge information from an executive session in emails endorsing another trustee’s candidate?

An ad hoc committee had recommended making the 1937 John Steinbeck novella an optional read in ninth-grade English.

Longtime budget committee chairman Dean Cameron is leaving the Legislature — a big shakeup with implications for the education budget process.