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UPDATED: Little reacts to Empowering Parents program review
…Board of Education about the review of the popular Empowering Parents program,” spokeswoman Madison Hardy said. The State Board is reviewing questionable Empowering Parents records dating back to mid-February. Board…
Empowering Parents panel to take shape this month
…recommend ways to “implement, administer and improve” the Empowering Parents program — which provides grants to cover families’ out-of-pocket education costs, such as computers, internet access or tutoring. The council…
Amid red flags, state launches Empowering Parents grants review
(UPDATED, 4:55 p.m., with additional comment and details.) The State Board of Education is reviewing the Empowering Parents program — saying some of the federally funded family education microgrants may…
Analysis: For Idaho Launch, the countdown to liftoff is already underway
…development and one foot in education. In rolling out Launch, Secrist envisions a program that looks a little like one of Little’s other big education initiatives — Empowering Parents, a…
Critchfield’s take on how the session will impact education
…back to attendance-based funding Read more here. Parental notification (HB 163): “It’s unfortunate that the word ‘empowering parents’ has taken on a negative connotation, because really how we empower parents…
Statehouse roundup, 4.6.23: Library veto survives challenge; Legislature adjourns for year
…boost teacher pay; and $30 million in permanent state funding for the Empowering Parents education grants program. And despite the override, Little still gave himself a share of the credit…
What happened — and what didn’t happen — during the 2023 session
…up some of the payroll costs that now fall to districts — a nearly $100 million funding gap, highlighted in a December Office of Performance Evaluations report. Empowering Parents. Little…
Idaho needs a major reset on education choice conversation
…it could get to the floor. Members in both the House and Senate worked on a bill to expand the state’s popular Empowering Parents program to include a small pilot…
Statehouse roundup, 3.31.23: House passes libraries bill, as session nears conclusion
…Empowering Parents, and bankrolling computers and devices the state doesn’t really control. The bill’s floor sponsor, Rep. James Petzke, R-Meridian, said the federally funded Empowering Parents grants have been “wildly…
Analysis: A wild and unpredictable legislative session? Just wait ’til next year
…$12 million a year onto the Empowering Parents education program, enough to fund a publicly funded, private tuition pilot. But that idea went nowhere in the House Education Committee. As…