Panel backs bill to restore 'staff allowance' flexibility for school districts
The House Committee on Education voted to send House Bill 305 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. Sponsors and education officials said the bill would remove a permanent penalty in Idaho code that reduces districts’ 9.5% staffing flexibility when average class size rises above a statewide threshold.
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Representative Sonia Galaviz, sponsor of House Bill 305 and a member of the Idaho House from District 16, asked the committee to remove statutory language that creates a permanent, one-way reduction in school districts’ staff-allocation flexibility.
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