Let Bamm-Bamm write curriculum
In a recent editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments:
Giving Idaho’s lawmakers a veto over agency rules presumably keeps the process accountable to you. But you have to wonder sometimes if it just leads to more political mischief. Case in point: Idaho’s attempts to replace its outdated and vague public school science standards.
Beginning in 2015, a group of 14 science teachers, assisted by experts from Idaho National Laboratory, the University of Idaho and Boise State University, devised what Idaho students should be expected know about science at each grade level.
Before the standards could be adopted as a new state rule, the Legislature had to sign off.
That proved to be more difficult than you might expect. More here.
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