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Broadband roundup: Districts scramble, bailout passes House
The House passes a bill to give school districts $3.6 million for short-term broadband contracts. It now goes to the Senate.
Statehouse roundup, 2.19.15: School tax shift, and more …
Rep. Mike Moyle, R-Star, says his proposal would have netted schools $9.9 million in property taxes from new growth.
Mortimer backs 7.4 percent budget increase
First-year Senate Education Committee chairman supports the funding increase from Gov. Butch Otter’s budget request.
Statehouse roundup, 2.18.15: Labor laws, and more
If the two bills pass, components from the rejected Proposition 1 school labor overhaul would become permanent.
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?