Carly Flandro
News Reporter at Idaho Education News
Bozeman Daily Chronicle political and environmental reporter
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3 days ago |
idahoednews.org | Carly Flandro
POCATELLO — On a few sunny school days in late May, streams of Pocatello middle schoolers cycled through town, sporting bright green helmets. Some were on their way to dirt trails, others to a local ice cream shop.
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2 weeks ago |
idahoednews.org | Carly Flandro
From the moment the polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday night, Marc Gee was pressing refresh on his computer screen. The Middleton School District superintendent doesn’t want to admit how many times he did that before official election results came out around 11 p.m.: His district’s $19.9 million bond measure had failed with 53% support — short of the nearly 67% needed. It was Middleton’s seventh failed bond ask since 2018.
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2 weeks ago |
idahoednews.org | Carly Flandro
Three Idaho school districts are seeking a combined $150.5 million in bonds Tuesday. If approved, Shelley, Filer and Middleton’s bonds would fund new schools and facilities upgrades. Shelley’s $78.6 million ask is this Election Day’s largest school ask, followed by Filer’s $52 million bond measure and Middleton’s $19.9 million request.
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2 weeks ago |
idahoednews.org | Carly Flandro
10:55 p.m. update: Middleton’s $19.9 million bond failsMiddleton’s $19.9 million bond failed with 53% support, short of the nearly 67% needed. The bond would have funded a new elementary school, which school leaders said was needed to relieve overcrowding. It was the third — and final — bond failure of the evening. Shelley, Filer and Middleton sought a combined $150.5 million in bonds for new schools and facilities improvements, and in each case voters rejected the ask.
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2 weeks ago |
idahoednews.org | Carly Flandro
IDAHO FALLS — Higher education funding will be upended in Idaho, and that’s a reality “everyone has to accept,” Jennifer White, the new executive director for the State Board of Education, told lawmakers Monday. At an interim session of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, or JFAC, White spearheaded a conversation on revamping a decades-old funding formula. Lawmakers are pushing for a transition from an enrollment-based model to outcomes-based funding.
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