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The latest and breaking news and investigative reports about Idaho public education.
Ybarra offers a sneak preview of her education budget priorities
State Superintendent Sherri Ybarra will ask JFAC to increase K-12 public school spending by 6.8 percent next year.
Report: One in five Idaho teachers leave their schools
Turnover is highest among the state’s high-poverty and low-income schools, the report shows.
Budget-writers start drilling into higher ed ‘CEO’ proposal
Lawmakers wanted to know how much the new office would cost — and how much the state could save by streamlining university programs. Some answers were sketchy.
Wendell hires Minico football coach as superintendent
Tim Perrigot will replace 14-year superintendent Greg Lowe, who announced his retirement in October, according to a Thursday report from the Twin Falls Times-News.
Bonneville drops $25 million elementary school bond measure
The decision reduces the district’s March bond issue for a new middle school to $35 million.
Education news around Idaho
In this week’s briefs a Grangeville teen is a semifinalists in the 2018 Military Child of the Year, Clark Fork students are giving back to kids in Houston and the Idaho STEM Action Center could win a large chunk of cash.
Idaho’s average teacher salary increases by 3.6 percent
The pay raises are the largest in the era of the “career ladder,” Idaho’s five-year, $250 million plan to boost teacher pay. The average teacher salary now exceeds $48,000.
State Board signs off on Otter’s higher ed ‘CEO’ proposal
Board members questioned the proposed $200,000-a-year salary — but in the end, they supported the idea unanimously.
Your guide to Education Week at the Idaho Statehouse
Beginning Monday, lawmakers will conduct budget hearings for the K-12 public school budget, and each higher education institution.
Pocatello-Chubbuck dumps open enrollment, approves boundaries
Trustees adopted new middle school boundaries, but tabled the district’s much-anticipated high school boundary changes for at least another week.