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Trustees in Nampa, Idaho Falls face recall elections

Mike Kipp and Elizabeth Cogliati could be stripped of their school board roles come March 9.

Legislative roundup, 2.10.21: Lawmakers seek to scrap August school elections

In other Statehouse news, a rewritten guns-in-schools bill emerges, and a lawmaker wants to ban professors from offering students extra credit for voting.

Girls basketball caught in crossfire of crowd-size discussion

State lawmakers are fighting to lift crowd limitations. The Idaho High School Athletics Association does not support the idea, at least for winter sports.

State launches expanded COVID vaccine distribution data

The public can now how vaccines providers are doing administering the shots.

Legislative roundup, 2.9.21: New higher education fee opt-out bill introduced

Some legislators want college students to be able to opt out of fees they aren’t using.

Boise stays in hybrid learning mode, to discuss opening schools next week

Vaccines, physical distancing, case rates, new virus strains and student mental health are all part of the exceedingly complicated arithmetic of reopening that Boise trustees pondered on Monday night.

Legislative roundup, 2.8.21: House Education kills Ybarra’s in-person learning bill

Legislators encouraged Ybarra to improve her bill and bring back a rewritten version.

Some schools struggled to graduate seniors during pandemic-forced closures

While Idaho’s overall graduation rate jumped by the highest margin in five years, some seniors went missing or dropped out.

Campus coronavirus roundup, 2.8.21: Sharp decreases at several schools

The week’s numbers are a mixed bag, including a case spike at BYU-Idaho. Lewis-Clark State College and the College of Western Idaho are reporting no active cases.