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Kevin Richert

Boise

Reporter and Blogger at Idaho Education News

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Articles

  • 1 week ago | bonnercountydailybee.com | Kevin Richert

    On Thursday, Idaho Republican Party Chairwoman Dorothy Moon decried low voter turnout in last week’s nonpartisan elections — which included more than two dozen school bond and levy proposals. And Moon floated one approach to boost turnout: further consolidating elections. “How do we get more people involved?” Moon wrote in her weekly op-ed. “One idea is to move all elections to even-numbered years.

  • 1 week ago | idahoednews.org | Kevin Richert

    Fueled by an apparent boost in online enrollment, Brigham Young University-Idaho has reported an increase in student numbers for spring semester. The private university released its latest enrollment numbers Tuesday. Overall, campus enrollment came in at 17,058, a 2% increase from the previous spring. But beyond that, the numbers are a mixed bag. On-campus student headcount totaled 12,432, a slight decrease of .2%.

  • 1 week ago | idahoednews.org | Kevin Richert

    On April 29, Idaho Education News filed similar public records requests with the state’s four-year schools. Boise State University, Idaho State University and Lewis-Clark State College provided the records within 10 business days, as state law requires. Instead, the University of Idaho sent EdNews an invoice: for $484.46, which might or might not cover its stated cost of providing public records to the public.

  • 2 weeks ago | idahopress.com | Kevin Richert

    Idaho colleges and universities will be able to seek leeway, as a sweeping anti-DEI law goes into effect. The State Board of Education will consider exemptions for required summer classes that might otherwise violate the new law. The exemption plan is spelled out in a 10-page memo, which went out Friday, May 16, to Idaho’s public colleges and universities. Timing was the driving force behind the memo.

  • 2 weeks ago | postregister.com | Kevin Richert

    Idaho colleges and universities will be able to seek leeway, as a sweeping anti-DEI law goes into effect. The State Board of Education will consider exemptions for required summer classes that might otherwise violate the new law. The exemption plan is spelled out in a 10-page memo, which went out Friday, May 16, to Idaho’s public colleges and universities. Timing was the driving force behind the memo.

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