East Idaho

Bonneville will float a $35 million bond issue in March. Is it enough?

Some patrons say they feel robbed by the school board’s decision to drop the option for a new elementary school with integrated special education facilities.

Pocatello-Chubbuck tables high school boundary change

Trustees said they hope to use extra community input to carve up new boundaries by early March. The original target date was Jan. 11. 

Bonneville drops $25 million elementary school bond measure

The decision reduces the district’s March bond issue for a new middle school to $35 million.

Pocatello-Chubbuck dumps open enrollment, approves boundaries

Trustees adopted new middle school boundaries, but tabled the district’s much-anticipated high school boundary changes for at least another week.

Idaho Falls revises bond issue

Trustees met Friday morning to pinpoint ways to whittle the $110 million measure that would have rebuilt Idaho Falls High School and extensively remodeled Skyline High School.

Open enrollment fuels school-boundary tug-of-war

Pocatello-Chubbuck leaders consider enforcing boundaries to balance enrollment and socioeconomic disparities among the district’s three high schools.

Pocatello-Chubbuck patrons split over boundary-change prospect

The proposal to carve up new school boundaries and end a popular open-enrollment policy has spurred a tug of war for land in the Pocatello-Chubbuck School District.

State Board OKs Sugar-Salem annexation request

The decision could boost Sugar-Salem’s meager tax base — which is the lowest in the state, per student.

Tension flares as Bonneville trustees agree on $60 million bond measure

The decision came during a Wednesday board meeting, amid tense debate that escalated into a confrontation between Bonneville superintendent Chuck Shackett and trustee Greg Calder.

Idaho Falls seeks feedback after failed bond issue

The renewed call for feedback suggests that a measure to rebuild the district’s two high schools could soon be back on the ballot.