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A new forecast says the state will be in a budget hole as tax cuts and revenue shortfalls slash its bottom line.

Boise State University is growing its enrollment, breaking fundraising records and rising in national stature. But fiscal ...

While K-12 education is exempt from this round, Superintendent Critchfield instructed schools to brace for cuts.

School funding and budgets are complicated and nuanced. One feature, determined following an annual audit, is a fund balance.

The Idaho Department of Education opened the investigation in April after receiving four separate student complaints.

It’s “the amount of information that’s coming to you all at once,” said Jeremy Vidito, chief financial officer for the Detroit schools. On a recent webinar, he laid out a litany of hardships, ...

Critchfield, also a Republican, later confirmed that it was her decision to plan for cuts affecting $3 billion in K-12 ...

For more than 42 years, I have had the privilege of serving children, families, and communities in both public and Catholic schools as a teacher and administrator. I have seen firsthand how teachers ...

Yet Idaho’s decision to lean on artificial intelligence means that K-3 students are reading aloud to a computer, not a teacher who can notice a furrowed brow, a hesitant pause, or that moment when it ...

Is Idaho Launch working? The early results seem to indicate yes. Let’s celebrate the early wins and continue to monitor the data as our students (the workforce of tomorrow) skill up in Idaho ...