Senate Education committee accepts most 2024 content standards, excludes two social‑studies sections; approves special‑education manual

The Senate Education Committee voted to accept a pending rule docket that adopts most of the Idaho content standards reviewed in 2024, but the panel carved out two social‑studies sections — the grade‑4 social studies standards and grades 6–12 U.S. history — for further work.

Greg Wilson, chief of staff at the State Department of Education, told the committee the docket (No. 0802032401) includes updates to the Idaho Special Education Manual, five content areas and statewide graduation requirements, and that the department was asking the committee to accept the docket “with the exception of the changes to the grade 4 social study standards and the grade 6 through 12 US history standards” and to retain a one‑credit communications requirement the department had proposed removing.

Why it matters: The committee’s partial acceptance…