BOISE (IdahoEdNews.org) –State superintendent Sherri Ybarra gave her employees more than $600,000 in bonuses this spring. It’s the largest set of bonuses Ybarra has awarded in her eight years in office. The payments began in April, weeks before the May Republican primary. Ybarra finished third in the three-person primary, and will leave office in January. […]
Even slight curriculum changes in the West Ada School District can take a lot of work, says curriculum director Dustin Barrett. With over 40,000 students, Idaho’s largest district has to ensure that any districtwide changes are spelled out for thousands of teachers, and that they’re trained to execute them. With a revised set of statewide […]
BOISE (IdahoEdNews.org) — Eighteen state executive branch employees have worked 158 hours as substitute teachers and some are getting paid twice for one-day’s work, though double-dipping was not the intent of the governor’s plan to help schools during a staffing crisis. Gov. Brad Little announced in September that executive branch employees would get paid-leave for serving […]