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Boise teacher Kari Overall elected new IEA president

Kari Overall (IEA)
Kari Overall (IEA)

Kari Overall, a history teacher at South Junior High in Boise, has been elected the next president of the Idaho Education Association; she succeeds Penni Cyr, who is retiring after six years in the post. Overall’s three-year term will begin Aug. 1.

“The Idaho Education Association is in great hands with Kari as our next President,” Cyr said in a statement. “She is a leader who is passionate about our association and our members and I am very happy to pass the baton of advocacy to her. Kari is a dedicated professional educator and has a wealth of experience—in the classroom, with the Association, and on the policy front.”

There’s more info online here. The IEA is Idaho’s statewide teachers union, and represents thousands of teachers and school support staffers statewide; it was founded in 1892.



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