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Idaho’s schools have a $66.5 million problem — and it’s impacting the state’s most vulnerable students. Since its inception, special education has been underfunded nationwide. Public schools are required to provide special services to fulfill the needs of students of all abilities — but they often aren’t given the money to do so, at least […]

Originally published Nov. 1 on IdahoEdNews.org.

Idaho public schools are behind $66 million in annual funding for special education; districts are forced to come up with the money themselves.

An Oklahoma woman charged in the April stabbing death of a Lacy Lakeview man was back in jail Tuesday after she violated the conditions of her release five days earlier.

It will take time — and tens of millions of dollars — to solve Idaho’s special education funding problem.

At least four states that have made most children eligible for taxpayer-funded scholarships to private schools are seeing more families using the programs than planned. It’s especially an issue in

Special education is underfunded across Idaho, and state superintendent Debbie Critchfield says it will take time to fix the 1975 state law that spells out the approach to funding.

At least four states that have made most children eligible for taxpayer-funded scholarships to private schools are seeing more families using the programs than planned. It’s especially an issue in states like Arizona and Iowa, where at least some families whose children were already in private school can now take advantage of public funding. Advocates for school choice pitch vouchers as a way to give students in low-performing schools a way out — and, increasingly, to give parents co...

At least four states that have made most children eligible for taxpayer-funded scholarships to private schools are seeing more families using the programs than planned. It’s especially an issue in states like Arizona and Iowa, where at least some families whose children were already in private school can now take advantage of public funding. Advocates for school choice pitch vouchers as a way to give students in low-performing schools a way out — and, increasingly, to give parents co...

At least four states that have made most children eligible for taxpayer-funded scholarships to private schools are seeing more families using the programs than planned. It’s especially an issue in states like Arizona and Iowa, where at least some families whose children were already in private school can now take advantage of public funding. Advocates for school choice pitch vouchers as a way to give students in low-performing schools a way out — and, increasingly, to give parents co...