A quirk of the "Students Come First" school reform law's complicated formula for shifting funds from school districts to online course providers means that the providers will get far more money for providing classes to students in some school districts than in others. For example,…
Idaho's school technology task force, charged with figuring out how to implement plans for buying laptop computers or other devices for every Idaho high school student and teacher and implementing state school Superintendent Tom Luna's "Students Come First" reform plan's new focus on online learning,…
Here's a link to my Sunday column on the redistricting hearings that the state's new bipartisan citizen commission held around the state last week; after crisscrossing the state, from Idaho Falls to Coeur d'Alene to Boise in three days, the commission will start its deliberations…
Though problems with bears have been all over the news this year - including the New York Times' recent suggestion that some of Idaho's slow-Internet problems are due to bears - this year is actually seeing far fewer bear complaints in North Idaho than last…