Idaho EdNews Staff

The personal property tax parlor game continues. And legislative action — on teacher salary money, school labor issues and a school security bill, and more.

Find information about the governor’s task force, the launch of a new lunch recipe book and grants awarded to schools for building gardens.

Idaho Business for Education names journalist and businessman to head its organization.

The latest on bills to tighten the initiative and referendum process, fund charter school buildings, revisit teacher labor laws — and more.

Open contract negotiations, kindergarten visits, funding for the Idaho Digital Learning Academy. And more. Here’s a look at Wednesday’s legislative action on education issues.

The Idaho Leads Project, supported by a grant from the Albertson Foundation, will continue to help strengthen leadership capacity in Idaho’s K-12 schools.

Shauneen Grange was selected to replace Rory Jones on the Boise School Board. She will fulfill his term, which ends in September 2014.

The chairman of the Senate Education Committee pushed a tongue-in-cheek bill Tuesday intending to send a message to the Idaho State Board of Education. Sen. John Goedde’s bill would add Ayn Rand’s book “Atlas Shrugged” to Idaho high school graduation requirements. The bill also would require students to pass a test on the book, meaning…