ROBERTS — One class at a time filed into the Roberts Elementary School cafeteria Wednesday afternoon to pick up their free pairs of warm winter boots and socks.
Most nights during the week, Christena Dickson checks for open teaching positions.
This year has brought sudden and nearly unprecedented changes to all parts of life. We want to hear from students about what that has meant in the classroom.
The coronavirus pandemic hasn't slowed down the College of Eastern Idaho's effort to provide more local high schoolers with access to college courses.
The cases of COVID-19 being reported by Idaho Falls and Bonneville school districts are staying apace with the record numbers being reported by the rest of Bonneville County over the last week.
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Name: Angela Morgan
Idaho Falls School District 91 will keep its school operations in the same status they’ve had for the last month, potentially remaining that way through the end of 2020.
Rocky Mountain Middle School will be the home of a new mastery education program in Bonneville Joint School District 93 beginning next year.
Online public schools are planning to see little change in enrollment when their second trimester begins later this month.
Name: Megan Toole-Teckmeyer
Bonneville School District Superintendent Scott Woolstenhulme told parents during a livestream Thursday night that the district had no plans at the moment to follow Boise School District’s lead and switch to online classes as COVID-19 cases rise across the state.
A new agreement between two Idaho colleges will make it easier for students to take classes from both schools at the same time.
Name: Alexsis Breeze
Salmon School District 291 will cancel district events for the near future as Lemhi County entered the highest phase of coronavirus case warnings for the region.
Bonneville Joint School District 93 has modified its coronavirus plan to set clear internal benchmarks for when students would stop attending in-person classes four days a week.
A group of parents in Idaho Falls School District 91 workshopped a plan during the fall to create a new complex of sports practice fields. The next phase of that plan is in the hands of the school board.
Two school bond measures worth $7.6 million were rejected by voters in eastern Idaho Tuesday, while a supplemental levy was renewed in Teton County.
Coronavirus cases have grown quickly in Bonneville Joint School District 93 since mid-October.
Sharon Oliver said that she regularly had more than a third of her students absent from her math classes at Idaho Falls High School early in the school year. On one day, the majority of her class wasn’t there.
A Skyline High School graduate at Utah State University is one of eight students selected nationwide for a math scholarship.
Many of the largest school districts in eastern Idaho saw enrollment increases this school year despite a downward trend statewide.
White Pine Charter School and American Heritage Charter School are wrapping up a monthlong food drive competition this week.
Debates about whether to buck or abide by public health guidelines for coronavirus isolation policies have mirrored other feuds about pandemic-related restrictions.
Name: Julie Bartle
College of Eastern Idaho will use a $1.2 million federal grant to build a regional facility for career and technical education.
Applications for Idaho families to receive a share of $50 million to help students affected by the coronavirus began Wednesday.
BOISE — The Idaho Education Association has created a hotline for teachers to anonymously report situations or activities that might risk the health of students and staff.
The roar of the Jeep’s engine echoed beneath the stands of Ravsten Stadium.
Name: Julie Schuster
Bonneville Joint School District 93 had recorded 29 new cases of the coronavirus this week as of the district’s Wednesday night board meeting — nine cases from students and 20 from staff members.
Two recall petitions have been filed against trustees in Idaho Falls School District 91 and organizers can begin gathering signatures.
Teachers will receive the majority of CARES Act relief funding in plans announced by Idaho Falls School District 91 and Bonneville Joint School District 93.
Three different ages of high school students will be taking national standardized tests at local schools Wednesday.
Name: Ximena Schneider
A growing opposition movement has formed in Idaho Falls School District 91 over the school board’s decision to move high schools to a hybrid learning model with students attending in-person two days a week.
The College of Eastern Idaho received a $120,000 grant from the Department of Education to help students pay for child care costs while attending the school.
The 30 students in Anna Goodson’s Hope Squad class at Hillcrest High School began Thursday’s class with journaling. They wrote and shared one thing that gave them hope in the last day or two — rides to restaurants for lunch, free cookies, help with a math problem. Once they shared a bit of p…
A driver shortage tied to coronavirus cases has led Bonneville Joint School District 93 to cancel the majority of this week’s middle and high school routes.
Idaho has released its first statewide report on the number of coronavirus cases at individual schools, though it admits the numbers are incomplete.
The high schools in Idaho Falls School District 91 will move to an alternating day schedule later this month to help limit the effects of the coronavirus.
The College of Eastern Idaho is investigating an assignment asking students to think about white, male and religious privilege, after the lesson drew attention in right-wing media and from several state legislators.
Ririe School District has been operating remotely this week after multiple staff members tested positive for coronavirus.
After a late summer lull in reported positive COVID cases in Teton County, the number on Eastern Idaho Public Health’s dashboard has started to rise again, and many of the cases are coming from the school district.
Name: Tracy “TC” Brandstetter
Not all students in Idaho will be able to attend in-person college fairs this fall, so the state government has set up an online alternative.
Two positive tests for the coronavirus among staff members have led American Heritage Charter School to hold virtual classes for the remainder of this week.
Fairview Elementary is one of two Idaho schools named one of this year’s National Blue Ribbon Schools by the United States Department of Education.
School in the Stacey house has settled into a morning routine.
Jefferson Joint School District 251 is the newest district to switch to four days a week of in-person lessons because of the coronavirus.
Name: Lisa Olsen
Classes were canceled Monday at Idaho Science and Technology Charter School after around a third of the school’s teachers were exposed to a positive COVID case over the weekend.
Child nutritionists have been passing out meals outside of Compass Academy and Skyline High School every morning this week. Wednesday morning’s offerings included chicken breakfast sandwiches and a Styrofoam cup of chili for lunch, along with fresh fruit and milk that was kept cold in a sepa…
Bonneville High School was one of the first schools in eastern Idaho to close this fall due to the coronavirus. School and district officials say that the events of the last few days show the plan to limit the spread of the virus is working.
A socially conservative legal group is asking a federal appeals court to let the state of Idaho enforce a law barring transgender girls and women from playing on female high school and college sports teams.
