education

There is a state map. It’s not Idaho!

As colleges scramble to prepare for a safe school year in the midst of the pandemic, are they prepared to enforce safe social distancing among their students?

The transition will start November 30th. So next week will be the last for the current hybrid model that allows the children to do in person learning every other day. Now they will be switching to all virtual learning until at least January 15th

A new state website has gone live that is a tool for Idaho families who wish to apply for financial assistance to help with classroom related materials.

In 1986, I was an extremely impressionable nine-year-old boy in the fourth grade. Like everyone my age at that time, I was obsessed with space. I loved Star Wars, E.T., and the Pigs In Space segment of The Muppet Show. I had NASA themed LEGO's, dressed up as Darth Vader for Halloween, and a poster of the Space Shuttle on my wall...

A new study came out from wallethub that ranked the best and worst school systems across the nation. Idaho is ranking higher than it has in previous years for quality but lower in safety.

Gov. Brad Little along with state education leaders presented the plan to reopen Idaho's public schools amid the coronavirus pandemic.

As students, faculty and community members begin to return to the College of Southern Idaho (CSI) campus they might see a new face, the fifth president of the college

The College of Southern Idaho will get a little more than $2 million as part of the federal government grant package to help higher education institutions and students weather the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

We are all figuring out new ways to get stuff done with social distancing and quarantine guidelines. That includes Yellowstone National Park which has been doing educational sessions on Facebook.

Idaho schools will remain on a "soft closure" for the remainder of the school year, but local districts may have the option to bring back students to the classroom depending on the status of social distancing directives are lifted because of the the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Today the state board of education will consider a number of issues in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic in Idaho, including the extension of the "soft closure" of schools.