News Briefs
Some 15 districts in Idaho are suing the members of their state’s supreme court in federal court.
February 25, 2008
In his State of the State address, Gov. Otter said he has asked a group of business and education leaders to assess how much Idaho spends on education and where, and compare that with the spending of high-performing school systems in the United States and abroad.
January 15, 2008
A $59 million plan from the Idaho Department of Education could raise annual salaries for some teachers in the state by thousands of dollars, but to get some of the money, they would have to give up job security.
November 6, 2007
In the past month, for example, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter gave the eight-member panel a sharp rap on the knuckles—twice—for financial slip-ups.
September 18, 2007
Newly elected Superintendent of Public Schools Tom Luna got most of what he had requested in the $1.37 billion pre-K-12 budget approved for fiscal 2008.
April 10, 2007
In his inaugural State of the State address on Jan. 8, Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter called education the highest budget priority in a year when the state has a new governor, a new speaker of the House, and a new state superintendent.
January 17, 2007
The Idaho Education Association, its Pocatello affiliate, and several other public-employee unions in the state, which rely on the deductions to help pay for their political action committees, challenged the Idaho law.
April 8, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review an Idaho state law that bars school districts and other local government agencies from making deductions from union members' paychecks for the unions' political activities.
March 31, 2008
Thirteen Western states that are home to more than 93 percent of the nation’s federally owned land have formed a coalition to lobby Washington for an annual $4 billion in lost local and state property-tax revenues on the federal land, nearly $1.9 billion of which would have gone to pay for public education.
December 12, 2006
After 16 years of litigation over how to pay for school facilities in Idaho, the only certainty in the case is uncertainty.
November 28, 2006
The races for the nation’s two open state superintendent seats remained too close to call this morning, while incumbents in four states retained their seats.
Updated: November 19, 2008
Voters in some states didn't show a lot of generosity toward schools as they voted down measures that would have provided more funding for education in Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, and Ohio. But proposals in three states that had the potential to restrict spending on schools-the idea known as a Taxpayer's Bill of Rights-were rejected, early returns showed.
November 8, 2006
It looks as though Idaho high school students will be adding more math and science courses to their transcripts, under rigorous new standards approved by the state board of education.
November 29, 2005
Simply completing the 8th grade might not be enough to make it to high school in Idaho.
November 1, 2005
Democrats and Republicans alike are calling for merit pay, pay for performance, and other ways that deviate from the generally inflexible salary schedules under which teachers are paid.
February 1, 2005
