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House Education chair urges continued investment in rural schools, CTE and teacher pay
Summary
Representative Doug Pickett told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee that Idaho has increased K‑12 funding and teacher pay over the past decade but still faces large facility and special-education funding gaps and rising demand for career and technical education.
Representative Doug Pickett, House Education chairman, told the Joint Finance‑Appropriations Committee on March 7 that Idaho has substantially increased funding for public education in the last decade and must continue targeted investments to meet new needs.
"Over the past 10 years, the public education K‑12 budget has doubled from $1,400,000,000 to $2,800,000,000," Pickett said, and he noted the state increased average K‑12 teacher pay to nearly $63,000 this school year. He thanked JFAC for committing an additional roughly $83,000,000 for teacher salaries for the current year and for approving an option enabling districts…
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