Search Results: "Wendy Horman"

Statehouse roundup, 3.25.19: House Education to continue funding formula debate Tuesday

Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls. “(If this bill passes) if you are the teacher teaching the teachers, you can also get credit.” Senate Bill 1104a passed the House 62-0. It previously…

Statehouse roundup, 3.21.19: Teacher recertification bill heads to House floor

…becomes law, educators who teach a professional development course would be able to receive credit for that course when they apply for recertification. Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, sponsored the…

Statehouse roundup, 3.19.19: House Education gets back to work

…for years,” said Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls. Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, debated against the bill — saying it would create an undefined scholarship, and leaving “unelected bureaucrats” to set…

Statehouse roundup, 3.7.19: House abruptly kills State Board budget

…Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, JFAC’s House vice chair. The failed State Board budget contained a couple of line items of note. It included $263,000 to allow the board to…

Statehouse roundup, 3.8.19: Legislators prepare to introduce funding formula bill — or bills

…incorporates some language from a different draft written by Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, and Sen. Lori Den Hartog, R-Meridian, two members of the interim committee. On Friday monring, Clow…

Statehouse roundup, 3.6.19: House passes sex ed opt-in bill

…has spent the past three days discussing a draft that was written with input from several education groups. Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, said she worked with Sen. Lori Den…

Statehouse roundup, 3.5.19: JFAC approves $7 million scholarship boost; House passes school budgets

…Tuesday and efficiently passed all seven public school budgets. Rep. Wendy Horman In less than 30 minutes — and without any debate in opposition — legislators approved a 6.1 percent…

Statehouse roundup, 2.25.19: Advanced opportunities program could grow further

…public school budget and into Ybarra’s budget: the innovative schools program, the online class portal program and the operations costs of the Idaho Reading Indicator test. Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho…

Idaho’s literacy program: a politically popular work in progress

…not unprecedented for budgets to die in a floor vote, but it is rare. JFAC’s support was conditional. Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls JFAC requested another study of the literacy…

Opportunity Scholarship 101

…the end of the 2017-18 budget year. Most of the original $20 million is still sitting in the bank. And some prominent lawmakers — such as Rep. Wendy Horman, an…