House Education Committee concurs with Senate on content standards, keeps communications credit, adds digital literacy; special‑education manual approved

The Idaho House Education Committee on Thursday took three formal actions on rule dockets from the State Department of Education: it approved a substitute motion to accept pending rule docket 802032401 with the Senate’s exceptions for fourth‑grade social studies and grades 6 through 12 U.S. history and to retain a one‑credit communications requirement; it rejected temporary rule docket 802032402 that would have promulgated the reviewed content standards; and it approved temporary rule docket 802032403 to adopt an updated Idaho Special Education Manual.

Greg Wilson, chief of staff at the State Department of Education, briefed the committee on the dockets and the Senate’s recent actions. He told the committee the pending docket contains updates to statewide graduation requirements and multiple content‑area standards: "this section to the pending rules docket has many parts and includes updates to the statewide graduation requirements." Wilson said the Senate accepted four content areas reviewed in…