In his return to the Gem State, Jon Abrams finds himself in charge of Idaho’s fastest growing school district an online school that has added thousands of students in recent years. Oneida School District trustees selected Abrams to replace outgoing superintendent Rich Moore this school year. Abrams has worked as superintendent of the Pine […]
Shelley High School ignited debate in the community after posting pictures to Facebook from a school pep rally where some students appeared to be in blackface.
The pictures were part of a gallery of nearly 60 photos posted by the school after the 2021 Russet Olympics, an event held Thursday as part of the school s homecoming do-over week. Students were asked to wear different colors to the event depending on their grade level, with seniors wearing black.
While the majority of students in the class only wore black clothes, screenshots of the since-deleted photos showed at least three seniors had their faces completely covered in black paint.
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School election results for March 9
EAST IDAHO (KIFI) - Four school board members will keep their positions after an attempt to remove them failed.
Pocatello-Chubbuck School District board trustees Jackie Cranor, Janie Gebhardt, and Dave Mattson were up for recall because of their handling of the hybrid schedule and the changing of the Pocatello Indians mascot.
Idaho Falls School District 91 board member Elizabeth Cogliati also will keep her seat.
While many of the supplemental levies were approved by voters, Bonneville School District 93 s supplemental levy and plant facilities levy failed.
Meanwhile, two school bonds did pass in Bingham County. The Blackfoot School District will use the bond to replace Stoddard Elementary and create an atrium at Blackfoot High School. The Shelley School District will use their bond to renovate Goodsell Elementary school and other repairs at buildings in the school district.
The sounds of caroling, muffled by face masks, echoed through the halls of Dora Erickson Elementary School on Thursday morning.
Instead of having a school assembly or individual visits from Santa Claus to each classroom, the holiday program was held entirely online. Students from Dora Erickson, Westside Elementary School and the districtâs online elementary program all connected to the video call at the same time. They sang in their classrooms or alone in their bedrooms as the school prepared for Santa to step into the office and greet them.
Bobbi Rooneyâs sixth-grade class only had half the number of students she taught in past years. Sheâs spent the last four months working around the inability to read her studentâs facial expressions or getting them to participate in online work. But for subjects that directly related to the coronavirus pandemic, her students were as engaged as they had ever been.