2015 Idaho Legislature

Legislative roundup, 3.5.15: A counseling bill surfaces

Catch up on all the day’s education news, including a new bill designed to fund school counseling services.

Legislative leaders discussed the Idaho Education Network meltdown — and the future — during a question-and-answer session Wednesday.

The bill is the latest attempt to extend a series of tax credits for donations to schools, museums and libraries.

A long-awaited career ladder salary proposal is up for consideration Friday in the House Education Committee, but educators are growing anxious.

The state’s contractor received payments to provide WiFi service to schools that have opted out of the statewide system.

Idaho cannot afford to follow other states and backslide on academic standards, according to the CEO of Idaho Business for Education.

If the two bills pass, components from the rejected Proposition 1 school labor overhaul would become permanent.

After four years and $12 million, Idaho’s new longitudinal data system is beset by problems that were foreshadowed years earlier.

Lawmakers also gave their initial approval to a bill to promote mastery-based learning in the schools.

The job of projecting school “support units” isn’t an easy one. And since every unit equates to $86,000 in funding, accuracy is critical.