Some Idaho education groups concerned with state’s new public school budgets, operations funding
Some Idaho education organizations and a local school board chairman said they are feeling squeezed by the public school budgets the Idaho Legislature set during the recent 2025 legislative session at the Idaho State Capitol in Boise.
In interviews this month, officials with the Idaho School Boards Association, the Idaho Education Association, a member of the Madison School District Board of Trustees and the superintendent of the Post Falls School District said they are frustrated with the new fiscal year 2026 public school budgets. They said the public schools budget provides no new additional state funding for anything other than pay increases and benefits for school staff.
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