In a special meeting this afternoon, the state Board of Education granted unanimous approval to a state request for flexibility from some aspects of federal education laws. Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra presented the request, a one-year waiver from elements of the Elementary and…
Fifty-four F15E Strike Eagle jets from Mountain Home Air Force Base are being temporarily relocated to Gowen Field in Boise while the Mountain Home base’s runway gets scheduled maintenance, the Idaho National Guard announced today. Here, Col. Jefferson O’Donnell, vice commander of the 366th Fighter…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has named Linda Clark, superintendent of the state’s largest school district, West Ada, to the state Board of Education to replace three-term board member Rod Lewis of Eagle, whose term expired June 30. Otter said he selected Clark from “an outstanding…
During World War II, North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene trained hundreds of pilots, aircraft mechanics and aviation technicians as part of the nation’s war effort. By 1947 NIC had the nation’s only combination watchmaking and aviation instrument repair program, operating at Weeks Field, now…
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