The legislation would provide $850 to school districts for every full-time equivalent teacher. The local school board would have the final authority to determine who receives the awards and how much each teacher receives.
The Joint Finance and Appropriations Committee will hold a rare public hearing tomorrow morning in the Lincoln Auditorium.
HB 504 would provide $15.9 million of what are being referred to as “premiums” to teachers around the state.
The House Revenue and Taxation Committee printed HB507 co-sponsored by Rep. John Vander Woude (R-Nampa) and Sen. Bob Nonini (R-Post Falls) that would provide $10 million in income tax credits for private school scholarships. The bill is similar to a measure that passed the House last year but did not make it through the Senate.…
Legislators have informed the IEA that they are receiving email messages from teachers written from their school accounts. If you are sending a message to a legislator, you are encouraged to use your personal email account.
Members of the House Education Committee voted overwhelmingly to oppose HB 477, a measure brought forward by the State Department of Education that would have allowed the SDE to pass along to individual teacher, ESP, and volunteer applicants, the cost of increased fees from the Idaho State Police to perform fingerprint background checks. The bill…