After changing its tiered licensure certification proposal, the State Board of Education is expected this month to address a related plan to increase teacher pay.
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Democratic state superintendent candidate Jana Jones said she was “shocked” to learn Wednesday that passages from her website appear, nearly verbatim, on Republican opponent Sherri Ybarra’s website.
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Hours before Tom Luna made his surprise announcement on Jan. 27 that he would not seek re-election, Gov. Butch Otter placed a pre-dawn phone call asking the schools chief to hold off.
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Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna on Tuesday called for a $77 million increase in public school funding in 2014-15 - with more than half of the new spending tied to teacher pay.
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Schools chief Tom Luna has asked for more time to prepare the 2014-15 public schools budget request so he can build it around an education reform task force's recommendations.
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IDAHO FALLS (AP) - Cade Lemmon, 5, sits with his service dog, Baxter, in their Idaho Falls home. Baxter is able to detect when Cade is about to have a seizure.
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