When Idaho schools made the switch from the Idaho Education Network to local district contracts with vendors for high school broadband, “No students loss classes due to a loss of internet, and no seniors were unable to graduate due to a loss of internet,” Idaho Education Technology Association President Will Goodman told lawmakers this morning. Those were the two big worries going into the transition, he said. But, “Districts were able to get the switch done very quickly and ensure that that did not happen.”

Goodman said the total state savings for the just-concluded fiscal year came in at $2.7 million, compared to the $5 million that was returned from the state Department of Administration, which had been running the IEN.