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The latest and breaking news and investigative reports about Idaho public education.
The school broadband budget plan, explained
How does the Legislature plan to save high school broadband? What happens next? Get your answers here.
Lawmakers receive stinging report on student data system
After four years and $12 million, Idaho’s new longitudinal data system is beset by problems that were foreshadowed years earlier.
Mastery bill advances to House floor
During the 2016-17 school district, 20 school districts would begin testing a move to mastery-based education.
Broadband: Lawmakers expect network to go dark
Sen. Dean Cameron, co-chairman of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, was vague about the plan’s details.
Education is the key to Idaho’s future
Increasing investment in higher education at the state level seems like a logical step. But without hand-in-hand efforts to creating job opportunities, it may merely increase the migration of educated Idahoans to neighboring states.
Idaho’s low kindergarten vaccination rate, explained
Why is Mississippi’s vaccination rate so high? And why is Idaho’s rate among the nation’s lowest?
2015 Bill Tracker
Here is a list of all education bills with a record of how lawmakers voted.
Lawmakers sharpen STEM focus with new panel
More than one-third of the Legislature’s 105 lawmakers joined the new, bipartisan STEM Caucus.
Statehouse roundup, 2.12.15: New anti-SBAC bill, and more
A new anti-SBAC bill surfaces, while the tiered teacher licensure/career ladder bill is on hold until next week.
Final ruling: Judge tosses out broadband contract
But the court ruling raises a whole new round of questions about back payments — and the future of the embattled Idaho Education Network project.