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Ybarra cheers school advances

Idaho state schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra is on her post-legislative session tour, addressing education officials – and some lawmakers – at gatherings around the state about what came out of the session for Idaho schools. Idaho EdNews reporter Clark Corbin covered the Boise session today, and reports that Ybarra was upbeat, cheering funding for teacher pay, school district operations, a new literacy initiative and funding for reading instruction that gives districts the option to launch all-day kindergarten for struggling readers/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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