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Community colleges pitch for funding, discuss dual credit boom

As more high school students take college-level classes on the state’s nickel, Idaho’s community colleges are feeling the effects.

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.