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Senate Education panel accepts pending rules packet but removes parts of social-studies standards
Summary
The Idaho Senate Education Committee voted to accept a pending rules docket updating content standards, graduation requirements and the special education manual, while excluding grade 4 social studies and grades 6–12 U.S. history standards and preserving a communications credit requirement.
The Idaho Senate Education Committee voted to accept pending rules docket 0802032401 with targeted exceptions, saying the change preserves continuity for schools while allowing further review of selected social-studies standards.
The committee’s action came after Greg Wilson, chief of staff for the Idaho State Department of Education, described the package as large and comprehensive, including updates to the Special Education Manual, five content-standard areas and statewide graduation requirements. Wilson told the committee the department requested acceptance of the pending docket…
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