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Every family, regardless of zip code or income level, should have the ability to choose what works best for their children.
A new forecast says the state will be in a budget hole as tax cuts and revenue shortfalls slash its bottom line.
Boise State University is growing its enrollment, breaking fundraising records and rising in national stature. But fiscal ...
School funding and budgets are complicated and nuanced. One feature, determined following an annual audit, is a fund balance.
While K-12 education is exempt from this round, Superintendent Critchfield instructed schools to brace for cuts.
The mission of Idaho Education News is to produce independent, comprehensive and thoughtful journalism about public education ...
The Idaho Department of Education opened the investigation in April after receiving four separate student complaints.
Critchfield, also a Republican, later confirmed that it was her decision to plan for cuts affecting $3 billion in K-12 ...
It’s “the amount of information that’s coming to you all at once,” said Jeremy Vidito, chief financial officer for the Detroit schools. On a recent webinar, he laid out a litany of hardships, ...
For more than 42 years, I have had the privilege of serving children, families, and communities in both public and Catholic schools as a teacher and administrator. I have seen firsthand how teachers ...
Molly Lenty — who is in the middle of her second term on the volunteer CWI board — on Tuesday announced that she will seek ...
One legislator recently wrote, “if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s a duck.” But here’s the truth: Idaho’s ...