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The Ybarra catchphrase winner? Wait for it …

Sherri Ybarra says she has winners in her campaign catchphrase competition. But she hasn’t announced the winners yet.

Mary Vagner was at the heart of controversy when a teacher and coach was fired over a risqué Facebook photo.

Trustees accepted Tim McMurtrey’s resignation Tuesday, then named Deputy Superintendent James Gilbert as his successor.

Shoshone School Superintendent Rob Waite hasn’t voted in his five years in Idaho, the Associated Press reported Friday.

A would-be candidate for student body president says she was the victim of gender and religious discrimination. The ACLU has taken on the case.

This week’s topics: Nampa’s budget turnaround, election polls and fundraising and Sherri Ybarra’s voting record.

Gov. Butch Otter also defended the decision to hire outside counsel in the broadband lawsuit, at a reported cost of more than $750,000.

Sherri Ybarra said she is running for the full-time state superintendent’s post, in part, to make up for her sporadic record of voting.

The Democratic challenger says Gov. Butch Otter needs to “come clean” on the contested school broadband contract.

The property tax overhaul has “greatly destabilized” school funding, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate said Tuesday.