More Idaho kids are graduating, but massive teacher shortage looms

Sherri Ybarra, Idaho’s state superintendent of schools, made a strong pitch to state lawmakers Thursday to raise the public school budget by 6.8 percent next year, with the biggest portion of the increase going to the multi-year effort to raise teachers’ salaries.

BY BETSY Z. RUSSELL

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