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Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind requests staff to meet enrollment growth and plans campus cottages to house students
Summary
Agency officials told the committee outreach enrollments have more than doubled in 15 years and campus residential demand is increasing; requests include career‑ladder equivalents and new outreach positions to reduce caseloads and cover travel costs.
Boise — The state’s Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind (IESDB) briefed the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on March 4 about steady enrollment growth in both its campus program and its outreach services, staffing shortages and planned campus expansions to address residential demand.
Jared Tetrault presented fiscal data for the program, saying the campus program serves about 122 residents ages 3 to 21 and the outreach program serves just under 2,600 students from birth to 21. "If you go back to the 2010 school year, the campus had 77 students and they are currently serving 122," Tetrault said, and outreach counts rose from about 1,100 in 2010 to roughly 2,600 today.
Analysts and agency leaders identified recruitment and retention as a primary budget pressure. Tetrault outlined…
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