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Legislature to return Wednesday afternoon with light education load

Some of the hottest debates over education bills – around school budgets and indoctrination in the classroom – have been settled.

Legislative roundup, 5.5.21: Day 115 focuses on exit strategies

Lawmakers won’t wrap up business before next week, making the marathon 2021 session a record-breaker.

Free-and-reduced-priced lunch numbers drop in most districts

The data doesn’t necessarily mean that Idaho families are better off economically.

Legislative roundup, 5.4.21: Senate passes key education budgets, including higher ed

Nearly four months after the start of the 2021 legislative session, the Statehouse K-12 and higher education budget debates effectively came to a conclusion Tuesday.

Legislative roundup, 5.3.21: Senate cuts income taxes as Dems call for more education spending

The $383 million in cuts were pushed by Statehouse Republicans, who say lower taxes are key to the state’s economic competitiveness.

House passes higher ed, teacher salaries budgets

Monday’s House votes represent one key milestone on the path to adjourning the 2021 legislative session, the third-longest session in state history. Monday was Day 113 for this year’s session, five days shy of the record, set in 2003.

U.S. Secretary of Education pushes to reopen schools with a focus on equity

“We have a tremendous opportunity to hit the reset button on things that we know needed fixing before the pandemic,” Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told reporters on Monday.