Idaho Association of School Administrators

HB 415 guns in school passes the Full House after an hour of debate. It now moves to Senate State Affairs Committee.

Jan. 31 House Ed will be hearing multiple new RS's this morning. I have attached a photo of the agenda. It will start at 9am MT. Watch it live https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ew41/ HB 447 printed last night, it is the Tax Credit bill, (voucher) and you can read through it at this link. https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0447.pdf We will be sending out talking points and contact information for that committee later today or tomorrow. Will keep you posted. House Ed will not meet on Thursday or Friday, just and FYI

House Revenue and Taxation Committee are hearing the RS on the tax credit for private schools. This will be the first Voucher attempt this year. It is being brought by Rep. Horman From Idaho Falls. It will pass as an RS and be given a bill number.

Jan. 30. House and Senate Ed will hear from Idaho Association of colleges of Teacher Education and more Rules today. Not too much going on in the education committees. HB 415 Concealed Carry in schools will be up sometime this his week in Senate state affairs. We will keep you posted. You can catch House Ed live today at 9am MT. https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ew41/

HB 422 on charter schools is being heard in House Education, it is a packed house. Watch it live now. https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ew41/

Senate education will be hearing an RS on giving teachers each a dollar amount to spend on their classrooms. This is a similar bill that has been run for the past few years. This will be heard at 3pm MT. https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ww55/

Jan. 24. We are in State Affairs this morning. HB 415 which allowed concealed carry on school campuses is being heard. We oppose this legislation, local districts have the means to do this currently and we don't need legislation looking for a problem. Watch it live at 9am MT. https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ew40/

House Ed will be hearing from the Idaho PTA, a new RS on charter school legislation, and then rules from the state board. Watch it live at https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ew41/

Good Monday Morning. House Ed has two things on the agenda at 9am MT. First, a presentation by Jason Lords from Bonneville SD on "The PLC Process: Driving Student Achievement". Then there will be a new RS from Rep Sauter on school board vacancies. This will put two bills in the system and we will see which makes it out. Senate Ed will be hearing the same presentation from Bonneville this afternoon at 3 MT. Watch House Ed live at: https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ew41/

Jan. 18. Senate ed will be hearing a new RS from Sen. Herndon dealing with school board trustees. Mike munger will be giving an overview of school safety. Watch it live at https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ww55/

Congratulations to Chad Williams, he has been announced as the new executive director of IHSAA starting on July 1st!

Wednesday Jan. 17. House Ed: Superintendent Critchfield is presenting on K12. They will also hear rules after. Watch it live at https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ew41/

January 16. House Ed and senate Ed are only showing rules presentations from the state Board of Education. HB 384 on libraries passed state affairs party wide vote despite the overwhelming number of people here against it. That bill will go to the full house. The other bill we are waiting to come up for a hearing is the charter bill, HB 386. We will keep you posted. Have a great day.

House State Affairs will hear the first of two library bills. The first one is by Rep. Crane HB 384 will be heard at 9am MT this morning. Watch it live at: https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ew40/

Happy Jan. 15! IEA is here at the Capitol in full force! Great to see them all here. Layne McInelly will speak to both House and Senate Ed today. House Ed is at 9am MT. Senate Ed is 3pm Mountain time. The only other thing on the agenda, superintendent Joni Stevenson from Cascade will be talking about their changes made in their school district! It will be awesome. Watch live in House Ed at https://www.idahoptv.org/shows/idahoinsession/ew41/

Happy Friday! January 12 and the first week of the Idaho state legislature is wrapping up. While there were not too many things that have come out in the form of an "RS" there were a couple. An RS is a “routing slip” number used by the Legislature to identify draft legislation that the committees vote on to see if they want to give it a bill number and send it through the rest of the process. In House State Affairs, we have two RS's on library material, one from Rep. Crane and one from Rep. Dixon. Both are going to be printed and given a bill number some time next week. I will keep you updated on those two when they become bills and we get to hear them. The other noteworthy RS that took place was in House Ed, we have an RS that will become a bill on streamlining the charter school process. As soon as we have copies of these bills we will get them out and keep everyone updated. Not too much to report out at the end of week one. Winter storms are getting people out early today and I hope everyone has a great weekend and stay indoors and warm!

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had an amazing holiday season. We are wishing you the very best as we enter the second semester of school. Today also opens the 67th legislative session. It will kick off with the State of the State by Governor Little at 1pm MT time. https://www.ktvb.com/ watch it there live! We will keep you updated through this legislative session!

I hope everyone is enjoying the ISBA conference! Make sure to thank them for hosting and putting up with us all! Tomorrow we will have our superintendent meeting, Dale, Rob, and Brady are hosting. Here is the information: Thursday, November 16 4:15 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Boise Centre West 120C Thanks and enjoy the conference.

Happy Thursday! I wanted to share with you all the link to the new IASA website! It's been a long time coming, but it is here! https://www.idschadm.org

Thanks to everyone who attended our conference the past few days! It was awesome and refreshing to see everyone and get ready for the new year! It was epic and our leadership will help shape the lives of over 300k students! Thanks for all you do! Have an amazing year!