Sherri Ybarra
A candidate for Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Idaho in the 2018 Idaho General Election, Nov. 6
Party: Republican
City: Mountain Home, Idaho
Occupation: Mountain Home School District school administrator
Curriculum director and federal programs director for the Mountain Home School District. She has a master’s and is working toward a doctorate in education. Ybarra taught school in Mountain Home for 11 years before becoming a vice principal and then a principal; she’s in her second year in her current administrative position with the district. Has struggled with a series of gaffes during the campaign, from a campaign website that copied Jones’ to mistakenly identifying a former primary rival as a backer; she says she’s “not a polished politician.”
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Ybarra, Dillon clash in spirited debate
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Ybarra, GOP challenger Dillon to face off tonight in the ‘Idaho Debates’
Ybarra, GOP challenger Dillon to face off tonight in the ‘Idaho Debates’
Lawmakers question Ybarra’s engagement, absences during legislative session
Key education lawmakers say they rarely met with state superintendent Sherri Ybarra during the 2018 legislative session, and that Ybarra’s lack of engagement hinders her effectiveness, Idaho EdNews reports. The House co-chair of the joint budget committee said she met with Ybarra just once during the…
House kills Ybarra’s office budget amid dispute over new early-reading test
The Idaho House on Friday killed the budget bill for state Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra’s office for next year, amid dispute over plans to replace the state’s early reading assessment test with a new, computerized version.
Idaho House spikes rural schools network bill
A bill backed by Idaho’s top schools chief to develop a new rural schools network has once again failed to clear the Legislature. For the third year in a row, the AP reports, state lawmakers on Wednesday blocked a proposal to form a three-year pilot project in which rural schools would collaborate and share resources. The pilot project…
Ybarra pitches 6.8% increase in state spending on schools next year
Here’s a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today’s public school budget hearing, in which Sherri Ybarra, Idaho’s state superintendent of schools, made a strong pitch to lawmakers increase state spending on schools by 6.8 percent next year, with the biggest portion of…
Ybarra pitches 6.8 percent school budget increase to lawmakers
Sherri Ybarra, Idaho’s state superintendent of schools, made a strong pitch to state lawmakers Thursday to raise the public school budget by 6.8 percent next year, with the biggest portion of the increase going to the multiyear effort to raise teachers’ salaries.
Ybarra gets high marks for her 4th budget presentation to lawmakers
Ybarra gets high marks for her 4th budget presentation to lawmakers
Ybarra makes pitch for rural schools network; Otter again rejects the idea…
Ybarra makes pitch for rural schools network; Otter again rejects the idea…
Ybarra highlights requests for anti-bullying programs, advanced opportunities, early literacy…
In addition to highlighting the teacher career ladder as her top request in the public school budget for next year, state schools Superintendent Sherri Ybarra is highlighting requests for anti-bullying programs under the Safe & Drug-Free Schools program; additional funding for advanced opportunities for students;…