2019 Idaho Legislature
Statehouse roundup, 2.20.19: Teacher salary bill advances
INSIDE: Vaccination opt-out bill passes — barely — after a tense hearing. And JFAC decides on more education budgets.
Opportunity Scholarship 101
It’s budget crunch time. Lawmakers are moving money around. What does that mean for college students and young readers? We explain.
Statehouse roundup, 2.19.19: Funding formula update; ISBA Day on the Hill activities
Education groups and legislators are meeting behind the scenes in hopes of introducing a funding bill by next week.
Rapid fire: JFAC approves $1.9 billion in K-12 school budgets
Budget-writers agreed — unanimously — to put an additional $49 million into the teacher salary career ladder, and double literacy program funding to $26 million. The seven budget bills now go to the House and Senate.
Statehouse roundup, 2.15.19: Senate passes turnaround schools bill; rules fight heats up
Sen. Dean Mortimer’s voluntary turnaround bill now heads to the House, where a similar bill stalled out a year ago.
Monday’s big K-12 budget hearing: what to watch for
Lawmakers will make decisions that could dictate where the state’s public school dollars go — and set the stage for other spending bills down the road.
Statehouse roundup, 2.14.19: Charter administrators bill heads to Senate floor
In other news, a Nampa student gets a hearing on a bill to give high-achieving students a more flexible high school schedule.
Statehouse roundup, 2.13.19: Teacher pay raise bill unveiled; guns-in-schools bill on hold
Gov. Little has changed his salary proposal since January’s State of the State address.
Report: Funding formula ‘wealth adjustment’ could put more financial pressure on schools
The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy issued a report Tuesday on the possible outcomes of a “noble goal.”
Statehouse roundup, 2.11.19: New immunization opt-out bill surfaces
In other Statehouse news, an East Idaho school district says an Idaho Falls legislator jumped the gun on a sex education bill.