Endowment distributions to Idaho schools likely to rise 8.8%

The figures are based on balances at the end of March, so they’ll change when final, year-end figures come in. But at this point, schools, which are getting $31.3 million this year from the endowment and are scheduled to get $32.8 million in fiscal 2016, which starts July 1, would get $35.6 million in fiscal year 2017, an 8.8 percent increase. Read more . Betsy Russell, EOB