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Idaho bill would let local school districts seek temporary exemptions to try 'innovation' plans
Summary
A bill introduced to the House Education Committee would allow individual school districts to propose time-limited "local innovation" plans that exempt specified administrative rules so districts can test new schedules, programs or evaluation methods, subject to State Board of Education approval and periodic review.
Representative Jack Nelson, District 26, brought a bill to the House Education Committee to allow local school districts to develop and implement "local innovation" plans that temporarily set aside specific administrative requirements to test new approaches in instruction and operations.
The bill, RS32624, would let a district identify administrative requirements that it says inhibit a proposed innovation, adopt a plan describing the changes, and submit that plan to the State Board of Education for approval. "This would allow some of the regular school districts to initiate some of the things that charter schools are doing," Representative Nelson said during the committee discussion.
Proponents framed the measure as an opt-in, locally driven way to replicate successful charter-school practices inside traditional public districts. Representative Mark Sauter,…
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