Outgoing House Education Committee Chairman Reed DeMordaunt likes to joke that serving one year on his committee is the equivalent of two years on any other. Each year at the Statehouse, the education committees are charged with directing policy work that shapes classrooms across Idaho’s 115 school districts and 47 charter schools. The summer after DeMordaunt, R-Eagle, took the helm of House Education in 2013, Gov. Butch Otter’s Task Force for Improving Education issued 20 reform recommendations for transforming education in Idaho. The lion’s share of the work to implement those recommendations fell to DeMordaunt’s committee, it’s Senate counterpart, the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education. Eventually, it proved too much for DeMordaunt to balance with his professional life/Clark Corbin, Idaho Education Network. More here.