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House education chair urges sustained funding, warns rural schools face greatest risk
Summary
Representative Doug Pickett told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee that Idaho has doubled K-12 spending over the last decade but must protect rural schools, expand career and technical education capacity and target funds for special education, transportation and literacy.
Representative Doug Pickett, chair of the House Education Committee, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on March 7 that Idaho has increased K-12 funding substantially over the past decade but still faces major structural needs, particularly in rural districts.
"Over the past 10 years, the public education K-twelve budget has doubled from 1,400,000,000.0 to 2,800,000,000.0," Pickett said, and he noted Idaho teacher pay "has increased to nearly $63,000 this school year, representing a 42% increase over the past decade." He thanked JFAC for recent…
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