House Education Chair Rep. Julie VanOrden, R-Pingree, announced this morning that the committee won’t vote on the school science standards today; it’ll just hear the remainder of the public testimony. “We will be taking it up in the future again to take action on it,”…
The Senate State Affairs Committee introduced legislation Wednesday that would raise the legal age of tobacco use in Idaho from 18 to 21. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Fred Martin, R-Boise, is intended to make it more difficult for minors and young adults to take…
U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, says he has joined the race to be chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. At least three other Republicans have announced their interest in succeeding Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., who announced he will retire at the end of his…
A “landmark” proposal to make patronizing a prostitute a felony on first offense earned a split vote in the Idaho House on Thursday following an emotional, two-hour hearing. Members of the House Judiciary and Rules Committee seemed to agree with the bill's sponsor, Rep. Brent Crane, about the need to "send a strong" message that this activity...
Members of the Idaho House Education Committee on Thursday continued to balk at proposed new school science standards that deal with climate change, even as public testimony came in 100 percent in favor of the newly revised standards; more testimony is scheduled on Friday. You…
North Idaho Rep. Heather Scott today proposed legislation to forbid school districts or other taxing districts that have a levy or bond vote fail from trying again for a year. “The purpose of this bill is to protect voters from aggressive taxing districts that repeatedly…
So much for the planned schedule in which the House would convene briefly at 8 a.m. tomorrow, and then the Education Committee would resume its hearing on school science standards in the Lincoln Auditorium as soon as the House adjourns, taking as much time as…
After this morning’s hearing on school science standards – which will continue tomorrow – Rep. Scott Syme, R-Caldwell, said he’s planning to propose a motion tomorrow to approve the standards with two sections removed – one of the five regarding climate change that lawmakers had…
With the House going on the floor at 10 a.m. today, House Education Chair Julie VanOrden, R-Pingree, has now recessed this morning's hearing on proposed new school science standards to tomorrow. Tomorrow's hearing, also in the Lincoln Auditorium, the Capitol's largest hearing room, will begin…
Melyssa Ferro, the 2016 Idaho Teacher of the year and the chair of the committee that developed the revised school science standards that are before lawmakers this year, told the House Education Committee, “The science in these new standards is sound, and it’s the same…
Among the testimony offered so far to the House Education Committee this morning on proposed new science standards: Ilah Hickman, 17, a junior at Timberline High School, told lawmakers she is a “passionate advocate” for the science standards. “Years later, me and my generation will...
Rep. Lance Clow, R-Twin Falls, has been closely questioning Scott Cook of the state Department of Education about proposed new school science standards regarding climate change. “If there are two scientists out there … who kind of take different approaches to the same data ……
Duncan Robb, chief policy adviser to state schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra, presented the new proposed science standards to the House Education Committee at the start of this morning’s hearing. In the new standards, he said, “Science is a verb – this is about what kids…
The House Education Committee is holding a public hearing this morning on school science standards - which raised controversy last year when lawmakers voted to remove five sections referring to climate change. Those sections have been rewritten and are back for consideration; Idaho EdNews has...
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