Idaho lawmakers push innovation in schools

New money was the big education story coming out of this year’s legislative session in Boise. Over the next year public schools will see a $109 million increase in state funding. This is about a 7.4 percent increase in new dollars, and returns state spending on public schools to prerecession levels.

But there is more to the Idaho education story than just dollars. Lawmakers worked to ensure that new money would promote more than the "same old, same old."

By Terry Ryan

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