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RIGBY (IdahoEdNews.org) – Lorena Reyes remembers feeling different when she was a kindergartner. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, she only spoke Spanish, and there weren’t many other kids like her. “I felt like the odd duck out, like I didn’t belong,” she said. That feeling stayed with her until she met her fourth grade teacher […]

Polk County Public Schools traditional high schools started their graduation ceremonies Thursday on with Mulberry, Tenoroc and Bartow schools.

Barely 6 months ago, the Polk County school district considered closing Alturas Elementary. Now it will celebrate its 111th anniversary Saturday.

LHSs head drum major Aaron “A.J.” Bates II, died in the crash along with his father, Aaron Bates, who also served as drum major when he was in school.

On March 8, 2021, PCSO detectives arrested 38-year-old Christina Siddell of Lake Wales for burglary with assault (F1). Siddell is a school bus attendant and paraprofessional at Alturas Elementary School.According to the affidavit, Siddell met her former boyfriend and his new girlfriend at the Lake Market (4812 Timberlane Road) in…

AMMON -— Two students in east Idaho are grade-level winners of a statewide holiday card drawing contest. The Idaho State Department of Education received more than 750 entries from kids in the drawing competition and chose the winners of the contest. According to its website, the state Department of Education’s holiday card contest is an […]

PCPS is proposing to close Alturas Elementary School in order to tear down parts of it and rebuild anew, saying to modernize it would cost too much.

Blaine County schools will likely remain in a hybrid learning plan—with students in the classroom two days a week and home three days a week—until at least February, the district’s Board of Trustees determined Tuesday night. The board voted to approve a resolution that states the district will continue to operate under the hybrid plan until the end of the first semester of the current school year. The new semester begins at the start of February. The resolution also directed dist...