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Courtney Linker didn’t always think she wanted to be a teacher. This year, she was the only teacher in Idaho chosen for the Extraordinary Educators program's class.

BOISE — Idaho students’ visions of future success were announced Thursday morning as Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra outlined her public schools budget plan to the Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations committee. Medicine, music and building for the future all feature prominently in the colorful student artwork that captured this year’s honors in the State Department of Education’s “Picture My Future” art contests. “In imagining their future careers, these students demonstrate our overall goal for Idaho public schools: to give ou...

Student art award winners announced Gracie Packer earned honorable mention by illustrating her dream of “turning her love for music into a career of owning her own music studio.” Top honors in this year’s contest went to Chloe Rowland, a 10th grader at Prairie High School, for her striking depiction of a future in nursing. Jeffrey Arnzen, an 11th grader at Prairie High School, came in third with a blueprint for his future as a builder/ architect. In second place, Melba Junior High seventh grader Yaretzi Zavala portrayed how science, math and other classes open a variety of career op...