New funding formula needed, say locals

COEUR d’ALENE — The state’s funding formula for public education has to be scrapped, said audience members at a forum here Tuesday night. Hosted by consultants with the Denver-based nonprofit Education Commission of the States, the event is one of several taking place across Idaho this month as part of work by the state Legislature’s public school funding formula committee. The committee was formed by order of the state Legislature in 2016 to study and make recommendations related to the school funding formula. The committee, in turn, hired ECS.