The members of the House Education Committee unanimously endorsed SB 1279, sponsored by Sen. Bob Nonini (R-Post Falls), which would create a mechanism for industry to partner with the state to fund STEM education in Idaho. Under Nonini’s proposal, a STEM Education Fund would be created and frontloaded with $10 million in state funding. Then,…
Disregarding the objections and expertise of the IEA, other education stakeholder groups and several charter schools and charter school employees, the Idaho House today took a party line vote of 55-14 in favor of SB 1248, which gives almost unlimited freedom to charter schools when they issue teacher contracts.
SB 1342a, the bill sponsored by Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll (R-Cottonwood), clarifies that using the Bible as a reference material in public schools is permitted.
Senate Education Committee members were provided with a presentation by the SDE, detailing how districts distributed more than $16 million in Leadership Premiums.
Senate Bill 1248 would allow charter schools to use whatever teacher contract they feel like using, and could destabilize the teacher workforce and undercut teacher’s collective bargaining rights.