Legislation that’s set for possible introduction in the House State Affairs Committee on Thursday morning would take Idaho’s ethics laws, its Public Records Law, and the Idaho Open Meeting law and move them into a single new title of state law, Title 74, to be...
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Some lawmakers cast doubt Wednesday on whether the state can reach its goal for 60 percent of Idaho's young adults to have a postsecondary degree or certificate by 2020. State Board of Education…
It's "Pie Day" today, when the Idaho Coalition of Home Educators brings large quantities of homemade pie, along with displays from and about home-schooled students, to the state Capitol. The annual event, in the fourth-floor rotunda of the capitol, is scheduled to run until 2:30…
A group of 17 North Idaho community leaders, including Coeur d’Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer; former Mayor Sandi Bloem; Ron Nilson, president of Ground Force Worldwide, a Post Falls manufacturing firm; Mark Browning, vice president of North Idaho College; and former Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson;…
Idaho would give college scholarships to high school graduates who earn college credits while still in high school, under legislation proposed today by freshman Rep. Ryan Kerby, R-New Plymouth, a longtime local school district superintendent. Taking college classes in high school increases the rigor of...
Idaho is shopping for a “bridge contractor” to run the troubled Idaho Education Network high school broadband service for 2015-16, Idaho EdNews reporter Kevin Richert reports. The state sent out a 31-page “invitation to bid” for the one-year contract yesterday, Richert writes; his full report…
Here’s a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Boise State University has hired the director of the Harvard Innovation Lab to lead the school's College of Innovation and Design. The Idaho Statesman reports (http://bit.ly/16njPsm) that 45-year-old Gordon Jones will start as…
Idaho is on track to take over primacy for the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System, or NPDES, for the EPA, state Department of Environmental Quality Director Curt Fransen told lawmakers this morning, but there will be costs to the state. Idaho is currently one of...
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