Getting to Know…
Jodie Thiel-Sebolt, IEA Director of Digital Technology
Teacher Pay, Funding Formula, Sex Ed and Guns-In-Schools
Minimum Starting Salary Bill Passes the House A bill that would set a minimum starting teacher salary of $40,000 beginning in 2020-2021, with an intermediate minimum of $38,500 next year, passed the House by a 61-9 margin. HB 153 is part of Gov. Brad Little’s effort to boost compensation in hopes of mitigating Idaho’s problems…
IEA People: Paul Hambleton and Andres Becerra
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…
2019 Legislative Preview
As usual, education topics will be at the forefront of discussion during the upcoming legislative session. Potential action on the recommendations from Idaho’s Public School Funding Formula Committee will certainly bear watching, and both the new Governor, Brad Little, and the returning State Superintendent, Sherri Ybarra, will be unveiling budget proposals early in the…
Delegate Assembly heads to Coeur d’Alene
Thanks to a New Business Item at the 2016 Delegate Assembly, along with more than two years of planning, the IEA’s Delegate Assembly and Annual Meeting will be held in Coeur d’Alene for the first time in this century. IEA members from across the state will get together April 5-6, 2019 at the Coeur d’Alene…