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- 16,000 Idaho families to receive money from Empowering Parents Program
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Sep 20, 9:32 AM:
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted educational learning across the country, Idaho included. As teachers, parents and guardians move to help students recover from this learning loss, they need access to additional support. The >
- Supreme Court decision may impact school funding in Idaho
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Jul 5, 8:42 AM:
Among the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent string of far-reaching decisions was a less-discussed opinion that could pave the way for religious schools to receive public funds.
- EDGE school program creates global citizens
- Mar 2, 9:23 AM: One of the newest programs at Liberty High School, EDGE, is adpating the microschool concept to give students in all grades a chance to work through a variety of real-world issues.
- Critics push back on school voucher legislation for Idaho families
- Feb 24, 9:11 AM: Critics say a voucher program pitched at the Idaho statehouse violates the state constitution because of where public dollars would go under the program.
- Bill on charter school teaching certificates advances
- Feb 16, 9:40 AM: Legislation giving charter schools the flexibility to hire teachers who lack traditional teaching certificates advanced to the Senate floor Tuesday.
- Opinion: Rural Idaho doesn’t have enough options for school choice
- Jan 19, 7:20 AM: I did not understand the power that came with the notion of school choice as I made my way through the K-12 system: not every school is the best option for every student. Many others didn’t see it either. Addressing this lack of >
- Technology, tutors and T-shirts: How Idaho schools will spend a $440 million federal windfall
- Dec 29, 8:53 AM: Three rounds of congressional coronavirus relief have injected some $680 million into K-12 coffers across the state in less than two years — good for about a third of Idaho’s annual public schools budget.
- Enrollment or attendance? Splitting hairs over K-12 funding in Idaho
- Dec 20, 6:46 AM: Any normal year, state budget writers build annual education budgets around the average daily attendance of Idaho’s more than 310,000 public K-12 students.
- Some ins and outs of charter school oversight in Idaho
- Dec 6, 7:39 AM: It’s been a rough few months for three Idaho public charter schools.Two are shutting down after state leaders say they over-collected millions of state tax dollars. The other faces closure after a company its board chair and head >
- Microschools have popped up in Idaho, but in unknown numbers
- Dec 3, 9:43 AM: Microschools have emerged in Idaho with little legal framework to shape them and no comprehensive tracking of their rise.
- Opinion: Innovation classrooms provide new path for public education
- Nov 24, 7:55 AM: Instead, the Idaho Legislature passed Senate Bill 1046, giving parents the option of “innovation classrooms,” an approach to microschools within the public school system. Innovation classrooms are established as an agreement between >
- K-12 Enrollment Rebounds, Virtual Schools See Declines
- Nov 9, 8:51 AM: Idaho’s K-12 public schools added thousands of students this school year, reversing last year’s pandemic-driven decline and resuming a years-long statewide upward enrollment trend.
- Where are the students? Kids who live in Sioux Falls could be at Jefferson, or Tea, or Sioux Falls
- Sep 14, 10:20 AM: The Sioux Falls School District started the 2021-2022 school year with 29 more students in K-12 than last year.
- Humphreys calls for school choice: Empower parents to choose for their children
- Sep 13, 10:54 AM: School-choice is the future for Idaho and for our children. The public education system should be supplemented with a robust network of free-thinking schools. It’s okay to think differently!
- Cardinal Academy opens doors to pregnant and parenting teens
- Sep 2, 11:29 AM: Life for new parents is not easy, particularly for teen parents navigating school. On Sept. 13, Cardinal Academy, a new public charter school in Boise for pregnant and parenting teens, will open its doors to students. Students from >
- New charter school opens in Grand Teton Mall
- Aug 26, 4:35 PM: The former Sears store in the Grand Teton Mall has been remodeled into a new charter school. Alturas Preparatory Academy will open for classes on Monday.
- Idaho loses ground on the ISAT amid pandemic
- Aug 20, 3:14 PM: The share of students deemed proficient in reading and math by the Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) declined during the pandemic, exacerbating a years-long trend of the state failing to meet its own standardized test >
- Boise’s Cardinal Academy, Meridian’s Gem Prep among four new charter schools set to open this fall
- Aug 19, 4:14 PM: Four new charter schools will open their doors in Idaho this fall — and lay the groundwork for a charter enrollment bump that could eclipse 1,400 students over the next seven years, charter support group Bluum announced >
- Boise’s Cardinal Academy, Meridian’s Gem Prep among four new charter schools set to open this fall
- Aug 19, 4:10 PM: Four new charter schools will open their doors in Idaho this fall — and lay the groundwork for a charter enrollment bump that could eclipse 1,400 students over the next seven years, charter support group Bluum announced >
- Student engagement drops – again – during the pandemic
- Aug 11, 10:03 AM: Only 45.7% of students reported being engaged with school during a 2021 survey. That’s down from 52.6% in 2019 and 65% the year before that. (Engagement scores dropped in 2019 when high school students were added to the survey). The >
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