This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. Education experts tend to agree on two ...

If you’re a parent, you know the game. Kids will repeat something over and over again hoping you’ll eventually believe it. It may work at home, but it doesn’t work in public policy. The opponents of ...

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We all consider Idaho a special place to live and work, but we are not special enough to swim upstream against the out-of-state billionaires who have an army of lobbyists and have bank accounts as ...

Idaho Education News’ North Idaho reporter Emma Epperly received a competitive award from the nationally recognized Education Writers Association. Epperly was selected for a micro-fellowship, which ...

When Lakeland School District’s levy failed in November, everyone from trustees to teachers to parents had ideas of how to make the budget work. But it’s the district’s head of finance who has to make ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday rescinded a federal order that would have frozen money flowing to grant programs, including those going to schools. The stated purpose of the order, issued Monday ...

After a lengthy and delayed effort to renew and possibly revamp Idaho’s early literacy exam, the Idaho Department of Education announced it would continue on with the same exam vendor, Istation, which ...

Tri Nguyen is a sixth grader at Hawthorne Elementary in Boise, Idaho. This is his opinion, research and writing on wildfires. Fire seasons have extended and impacted wildlife by being more dangerous ...

Kudos to Idaho House Speaker Mike Moyle for starting a crusade against “outdated, obsolete and unnecessary” laws. Moyle’s House Bill 14 — the “Idaho Code Cleanup Act”— would cleanse Idaho’s statute ...

District officials plan millions in cuts with or without the levy.

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