Idaho lawmakers this week are holding a rare summertime joint meeting of the House and Senate education committees to bring colleagues up to speed on state compliance efforts.
House Education Committee Chairwoman Julie VanOrden and Senate Education Committee Chairman Dean Mortimer meet with other legislators on Tuesday at the Statehouse.
Atop the agenda is a briefing on Idaho’s plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. Idaho faces a September 18th deadline to submit its plans for school accountability and for spending 83 million dollars in federal funding. VanOrden says that legislators should be briefed on the plan before Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra and the State Board of Education submit it to the feds.
The compliance process came into focus earlier this month after members of the Idaho Education Association and the Idaho School Boards Association claimed they were ignored and cut out of developing the plan.
Other items on Tuesday’s agenda include an update on teacher evaluations; a briefing on recent standardized test and SAT results, and a presentation by Idaho Career-Technical Education Administrator Dwight Johnson on the state of career-technical education in Idaho. (Idaho Education News)
