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Parent panel dives into recommendations for state microgrant program
…Limiting Empowering Parents funds to Idaho residents. This recommendation comes in response to word that families living out-of-state, with children attending Idaho schools, could legally access Empowering Parents funds. Panelist…
Empowering Parents panel discusses program eligibility and limitations
…schools’ role in Empowering Parents. According to Idaho Code, said State Board Director Matt Freeman, only nonpublic school students can access services from public schools through Empowering Parents. This has…
State still waiting on interest refund from contractor
The check may or may not be in the mail. Regardless, state officials still expect to receive close to $500,000 that a contractor collected while administering the Empowering Parents education…
Of backpacks and ballet shoes: Parental group ponders an Empowering Parents gray area
…items, Heather Zeitlin, the State Board’s Empowering Parents coordinator, told council members Monday. The state’s contractor running the Empowering Parents program — New York-based Primary Class, known also as Odyssey…
Analysis: How Idaho’s troubled Empowering Parents vendor expanded its national brand
…Empowering Parents bid, saying the vendor had failed to submit a timely cost estimate.) Odyssey — founded in June 2021 — got the Empowering Parents contract from a State Board…
State Board steps up legal battle with Labrador
…understand his sensitivity to issues related to how he’s handled education policy — including the emerging issues surrounding the improper or questionable purchases through the so-called Empowering Parents grant program…
State review finds up to $180,000 in improper Empowering Parents purchases
…and issues.” The Empowering Parents interest issue In another development Friday, the state’s Department of Administration said Odyssey earned $478,656.22 in interest from the Empowering Parents account. On June 23,…
Analysis: Empowering Parents problems catch Little off-guard, inexplicably
…has asked Amazon for comment on its protocols for processing Empowering Parents purchases.) Primary Class Inc. — the state’s contractor managing the Empowering Parents online marketplace — found another problem…
Empowering Parents contractor may have collected interest off taxpayer funds
…an Empowering Parents advisory panel at its July 10 meeting. The parents’ panel will ultimately make recommendations to the State Board about how to improve the Empowering Parents program, likely…
Little requests audit of possible improper purchases with tax dollars
…vendors that sell products through the Empowering Parents online marketplace. Using $50 million of federal coronavirus aid, Idaho went live with Empowering Parents last fall. The state attempted to build…