Last week, a joint committee of the House and Senate Education committees held a listening session to gather feedback from stakeholders on proposed funding formula draft language. This week, education committee co-chairs and key lawmakers convened a stakeholder roundtable to go page by page and address the problems they heard. These meetings will continue next…
Education stakeholder groups, including the IEA, and several individuals addressed a joint session of the education committees Thursday to share feedback and concerns about the proposed funding formula draft language.
The legislature has released a 59-page draft version of a bill related to changing Idaho’s public school funding formula. It is a first attempt to translate spreadsheets and numerical data into language that could be the basis of a new formula for how the state distributes funds to public school districts and charter schools. The…
The Idaho Education Association is very fortunate to have a pair of veteran administrators working with the organization on an interim basis. Paul Hambleton is serving as the IEA Interim Executive Director and Andrés Becerra is the IEA Interim Associate Executive Director. Hambleton comes to Idaho by way of Wisconsin and Maine. He spent 20…
IEA Addresses House Ed, Superintendent’s Budget Request to JFAC, Idaho’s Teacher of the Year Recognized and more
A rare joint session of the House and Senate Education Committees took place Thursday with just one item on the agenda—making sure the committee members had the latest information regarding potential changes to Idaho’s public education funding formula. The presentation was made by House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley and Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, along…