Search Results: "Wendy Horman"

College scholarship program in line for a $3.5 million boost

…Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, a JFAC member who helped craft the scholarship budget. The scholarship budget bill passed JFAC on a 20-0 vote. It now has to work its…

JFAC cuts budget to replace elementary reading test

…test statewide in 2018-19. But Rep. Wendy Horman says that plan may be premature. And Horman says state superintendent Sherri Ybarra’s request to continue funding a replacement test is “based…

Lawmakers zero out ‘CEO’ proposal

…to oversee academics and administration. Based on staff research, Rep. Wendy Horman made the motion for the $250,000 budget. “I am comfortable that this study will obtain the information we…

Funding committee wants to continue its work into 2019

…as weighting factors to apply to student groups. Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls Rep. Wendy Horman, co-chair of the interim funding committee, said the group needs another year of work…

JFAC calls for 5.9 percent increase in public school funding

…in this budget,” said Idaho Falls Republican Rep. Wendy Horman, who took a leading role in writing the budget. “That’s why you saw a very collaborative process come together here.”…

Controversial Wi-Fi contract could come to an end

…a similar conclusion, said Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, a JFAC member who plays a key role in writing K-12 budgets: a one-year contract extension represented a legal gray area….

School budget debate hinges on health care funding

…invest more heavily in a K-3 literacy initiative and add funding for teacher professional development. Rep. Wendy Horman, an Idaho Falls Republican who helps write the K-12 budgets, said school…

Round 3: Funding formula committee looks at another summer of work

…is to have a recommended rewrite ready for the 2019 Legislature. “We have a journey yet to travel ahead,” said Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, the committee’s co-chair, during a…

Ybarra asks lawmakers to increase public school funding by 6.8 percent

…Otter’s and begin assigning priorities and piecing the budgets together. Idaho Falls Republican Rep. Wendy Horman said setting the budget will require a balancing act. Horman is committed to covering…

As Idaho’s ELL population grows, the budget is likely to follow

…the rising ELL enrollment makes the case for added ELL staffing. But two JFAC members — Republican Reps. Wendy Horman of Idaho Falls and Steve Miller of Fairfield — wanted…