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State’s testing chief to leave
TJ Bliss, Idaho’s point person on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium test rollout, will leave the state at the end of the school year.
Education-related discussions coming up
Learn about the smartest kids in the world, early childhood development, healthy places equals healthy people and an eastern Idaho educator who is up for a national award.
Un-learning to love professional development
The Kellogg School District experiments with an innovative and collaborative approach to teaching teachers.
Grant helps transform teacher prep
Idaho is using a $237,000 grant to develop pilot programs and refine standards and certifications for future teachers in Idaho’s colleges and universities.
Back to the bargaining table
Will this year’s K-12 education budget make for smoother labor negotiations?
Parma gets kids into college
Scholarships, early planning and support lead to a 75 percent go-on rate from Parma High graduates.
CDA charter ranks as most challenging
For the fifth consecutive year, four high schools from the Boise School District landed on the list generated by the Washington Post.
Progress on broadband budget impasse?
State officials and a federal contractor are talking, finally, about funding the state’s high school broadband project. “Hopefully, in short order, we will have this all behind us,” state superintendent Tom Luna said Tuesday.
State preps educators for new laws
140 Treasure Valley-area educators and administrators received a refresher course in the legislative session Tuesday. Forums continue in North Idaho this week.
New committees pick up task force work
Two groups of educators, stakeholders and state officials have started the work of continuing to develop and implement the task force recommendations from 2013.