Teachers object to Ehardt education committee comments
House Education Committee Chair Lance Clow
BOISE, Idaho (KIFI)-Idaho teachers are objecting to comments made by Idaho Falls State Representative Barbara Ehardt during a House Education Committee meeting this week.
During the budget session, Ehardt complained about spending money on public education while some students were being taught from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The reason that they’re suffering is because they’re in the classroom with teachers that don’t want to be there teaching,” said Ehardt. “So why do we want to keep giving money to classrooms that may contain teachers that don’t want to be there…and wouldn’t that be a poor use of the money?”
Idaho health districts working with schools on plan to vaccinate teachers, staff
Gov. Brad Little s announcement that teachers and school staff were being moved up the priority list came as a surprise to health and school districts. Author: Joey Prechtl Updated: 10:28 PM MST January 13, 2021
BOISE, Idaho Excitement was accompanied by surprise throughout Idaho after Gov. Brad Little s announcement on Tuesday that school staff and teachers could start receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
“We did anticipate this rolling out in February, so it was certainly a little bit of surprising news but welcome news,” West Ada spokesperson Char Jackson said.
It also surprised health districts. Neither Central District Health nor Southwest District Health was aware that the governor was going to announce that teachers had been moved up in the planned rollout.
BY KEVIN RICHERT / IdahoEdNews.org
Originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on January 7, 2021
The Idaho Legislature will begin an unsettling and potentially unsafe 2021 session in four days. The state’s 105 part-time lawmakers will meet in the midst of a surging pandemic that has killed more than 1,500 Idahoans, and in the aftermath of rioting at the U.S. Capitol that left four people dead.
Policies and proposals almost feel irrelevant. Perhaps this year’s overriding goal should be to reach adjournment with everyone’s health intact.
In any other year, that would sound hyberbolic. In 2021, it just sounds pragmatic.
Hundreds of citizens (most unmasked) crowd the Statehouse hallways during a special legislative session in August. That contentious special session, combined with the state’s rising coronavirus case numbers, has education leaders uneasy about the 2021 session, which starts Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. CREDIT: Sami Edge/Idaho Education News
A sharing tree, a sleigh of gifts dnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.