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Boise State University is committing itself to a beefed-up computer science program, a move tech companies say is a giant leap forward for the local industry. Mark Rudin, BSU research and economic development vice president, said the school will be ...

McCall could be the next Idaho city to establish a two-year college, but locals who are organizing the efforts are preparing themselves for an uphill struggle. The McCall College Foundation, the private nonprofit created to get the college up and ...

Economist Brian Greber is leaving his post as director of Boise State University’s Center for Business Research and Economic Development to pursue his own consulting work in the Treasure Valley. Greber, 54, said his part-time job at Boise State had ...

Legislative budget writers have voted to increase state support for public schools by 4.6 percent in 2013, bumping up the minimum teacher salary by $500 a year and funding education reforms approved during last year’s session, including a statewide laptop ...

Idaho senators voted 32-0 on March 1 to reverse teacher salary funding cuts envisioned under public schools chief Tom Luna’s “Students Come First” reforms last year. The Spokesman-Review reports the unanimous vote came after lawmakers said their local school districts ...

Nearly 1,300 Idaho teachers left the profession in 2011, up from about 700 the year before. More than half of the educators who abandoned teaching last year left for “personal reasons,” according to data from the state Department of Education. ...

 Idaho’s new school reform laws have gutted the collective bargaining powers of teachers’ unions, and membership in some of the organizations is waning. That’s leaving some of the union locals without the simple-majority status that they must prove in order ...

The First Amendment bars a disability discrimination suit brought by a teacher who was fired by a religious school, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous decision. The ruling reverses a decision from the 6th Circuit. The plaintiff ...

Following a path made at other universities, Northwest Nazarene University School of Business Dean Steve Mountjoy is teaching a class on social ventures, where students create business plans with a financial and social bottom line. “Business really should be meeting the ...

Boise State University and the College of Western Idaho are two big winners in the higher education budget unveiled by Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter. For the first time in three years, the budget includes funding for the enrollment workload adjustment, ...