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DeMordaunt leaves a hole in education leadership

House Education Chairman Reed DeMordaunt is not running for reelection, choosing instead to focus on his software business.

The K-12 funding debate: A new normal?

Why did this year’s K-12 budgets sail through the Legislature easily? And who were the Legislature’s top five K-12 budget hardliners? We have the answers.

After years of waiting, Wilder celebrates iPad rollout

After nearly two years of waiting to receive computing devices, all Wilder students received iPads Wednesday, thanks to a grant through Apple’s ConnectED program.

Nineteen schools apply to participate in mastery program

Schools selected to participate in the program are scheduled to be announced in late April.

Otter rips A.G.’s advice on broadband contract

Gov. Butch Otter says Attorney General Lawrence Wasden’s staff played a role in the decisions leading to the 7-year-old Idaho Education Network legal fiasco.

The 2016 session: What happened? And what didn’t happen?

Ten things you need to know about the legislative session that was. And six potential pieces of unfinished business.

House approves $8 million broadband settlement bill

Debate over the Idaho Education Network was sometimes testy — and came minutes before the final gavel dropped on the 2016 legislative session.

Broadband settlement bill on hold

Statehouse roundup, 3.24.16: As lawmakers work their way toward adjournment, several other last-minute budget bills worked their way through the pipeline.