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Idaho school board leaders urge legislature to defend public education
Summary
Brian Piper, president of the Idaho School Boards Association, told the House Committee on Education that public schools are central to civic life and urged lawmakers to partner with locally elected boards to support student learning and district governance.
Brian Piper, president of the Idaho School Boards Association and chair of the Madison School District Board of Trustees, told the Idaho House Committee on Education on Feb. 18 that public education is “life giving” and urged lawmakers to support locally elected school boards as partners in improving student learning.
Piper, a longtime trustee and a professor of physics at Brigham Young University–Idaho, said public schools perform four essential roles: weaving the social fabric that sustains democracy; applying…
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