The school year is all but over, but the contractor handling Idaho’s new standardized test needs an extension, writes Kevin Richert of Idaho Education News. The results from this spring’s student testing on the Idaho Standards Achievement Test by Smarter Balanced have been trickling in…
The Coeur d’Alene school board voted 4-1 last night to keep John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” as an option for the district’s teachers to assign their 9th grade English classes, prompting one outspoken opponent to call on people to pull their kids out of…
Federal officials are releasing a bull trout conservation plan for five states on Thursday with the goal of easing the way toward removing bull trout from the endangered species list, where it’s been listed since 1999, the AP reports. The plan, on which public comments…
A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group has asked three state attorneys general to investigate a Utah lawmaker who has led a push for western states to take control of federal public lands, the AP reports, saying Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory has actually been funneling money…
Kitty Gurnsey, the longtime state lawmaker and JFAC co-chair who was the last Republican to represent Boise’s North End, died Sunday at the age of 87. When Gurnsey was first elected to the Idaho House in 1974, defeating an incumbent in the GOP primary, she...
Longtime Sen. Dean Cameron, asked how he decided to make the move from serving in the Idaho Senate and co-chairing the budget-writing Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee to heading the state Department of Insurance, said, “This whole thing’s been rumored for some time, but honestly, nobody had…
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