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House Education Committee concurs with Senate changes to content standards, rejects temporary rule and approves special education temporary rule
Summary
The committee largely concurred with the Senate's partial approvals of a pending rule docket covering content standards, statewide graduation requirements and the special education manual; it rejected a temporary rule for several content standards and approved a temporary special education manual to ensure IDEA compliance through July 1.
Greg Wilson, chief of staff at the Idaho Department of Education, briefed the committee on pending and temporary rule dockets (docket nos. 0802032401–2403), describing changes the Senate had already adopted and explaining the department's position. He said the pending docket includes updates to the special education manual, five content standard areas reviewed in 2024, and statewide graduation requirements.
Wilson told the committee the Senate accepted the special education manual in whole, accepted four content areas (with the exception of two social studies sections), and rejected a proposed elimination of the one-credit speech and communications graduation requirement. He explained acceptance by the two bodies would put updated materials in place for the 2025–26 school year and that, if…
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