Legislation to Set $40,000 Minimum Starting Teacher Salary Advances Gov. Brad Little’s bill, HB 153, which would raise Idaho’s minimum starting teacher salary to $40,000 over the next two years, passed the House Education Committee and will move to the House floor. IEA and Nampa Education Association member Samantha Eichner, testified in favor of the…
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…
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