Idaho state schools chief Tom Luna opened the deliberations of a 39-member task force today that'll help determine how to implement big new school technology investments, even as the Idaho Secretary of State's office issued certificates officially placing three referendums on the November 2012 ballot…
Official certificates were issued by the Idaho Secretary of State's office today placing three referendums on the November 2012 ballot to give Idaho voters a say on whether to repeal the three major education reform bills enacted by the Legislature this year. In the final…
Idaho Democratic Party Chairman Larry Grant is calling on House State Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, to resign from the Legislature, citing Loertscher's killing of a bill proposed by Idaho highway districts to require a public hearing before a public road is vacated, shortly…
Idaho State University has been sanctioned for poor faculty governance practices by a national association of university professors, and while ISU is dismissing the sanction as "meaningless," one of its major donors disagrees and says the sanction will hurt faculty recruitment. The Idaho State Journal…
State schools Superintendent Tom Luna has opened the first meeting of his "Students Come First" Technology Task Force this morning with a speech calling on Idaho to become a "global leader" in education, saying, "Our economic competition is global and it's focused and it's fierce…
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