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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…
First parent advisory council meeting sheds light on state microgrant program
Thursday marked the inaugural meeting of the newly formed advisory committee for Empowering Parents, a microgrant program designed to supplement out-of-pocket education costs for Idaho families. The seven-member council —…
New Empowering Parents advisory committee to begin work next week
(UPDATED, 5:37 p.m., May 26, with revised meeting location.) A newly named Empowering Parents advisory committee will meet for the first time next week. Over the summer, the seven-member panel…
Video: ‘Idaho Reports,’ 5.19.23
…the University of Phoenix; higher education tuition hikes; the latest at North Idaho College; last week’s school bond and levy elections; and the latest on the Empowering Parents program. …
‘Politician’ is not always a dirty word
…Nichol’s plan was not much different from the superintendent’s push for an Empowering Parents grant that is aimed at helping families take charge of learning tools outside the classroom. As…