Public charter school Gem Prep Pocatello will fill the former Sears space at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck that has been vacant for four years. Gem Prep is in a lease-to-own arrangement with Building Hope, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit ...

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The Boise nonprofit that funds the operations of new charter schools has received a $17.1 million federal grant that could fund up to 19 new and expanding charter schools that focus on disadvantaged and rural students. The amount of the ...

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North Star Charter School in Eagle plans to transform six acres of rough, grassy area into a football field encircled by a track, a bigger playground, a fenced-in court sports area, a fitness circuit and more parking. The three-year, $2 ...

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Vision Charter School in Caldwell started construction Oct. 3 on a 27,984-square-foot, $4.5 million expansion to house the school’s 400 elementary students who are now in portable classrooms. The addition will more than double the size of Vision Charter, which ...

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Kindergarten to fourth-grade students will have a new campus for the next school year at Idaho Arts Charter School in Nampa. The popular 11-year-old charter school is building a second campus on what used to be the green and part ...

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A new era starts now for Sage International School, the Boise charter school that has pieced together a single campus and all the K to 12 grades in its first six years. Sage has ambitions to become the first public ...

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