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Senator introduces bill to let Idaho public schools convert to charter status with local board approval; panel sends bill to floor
Summary
State Senator Janie Ward Engelking presented Senate Bill 1097 to allow traditional public schools or districts to convert into charter schools or charter districts with a local plan and school board approval. The Senate Education Committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
State Senator Janie Ward Engelking, sponsor of Senate Bill 1097, told the Idaho Senate Education Committee the measure would permit traditional public schools or an entire public school district configuration to convert to charter status if the local authority chooses to pursue that path.
"Some of the flexibility and curriculum, some of the reporting that if you're a highly performing school, you don't have to send those reports in," Ward Engelking said, explaining that the bill is intended to allow traditional public schools the same types of flexibilities charter schools already use.…
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