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State Ed Board to re-do Monday meeting in interest of ‘transparency and openness’

Idaho’s state Board of Education plans to rescind two decisions made during a special board meeting Monday and re-do the meeting in an effort to be more transparent, Idaho EdNews reports. “We’d rather make sure it’s right and that everybody feels like we did it on the up and up,” State Board Executive Director Matt Freeman told Idaho EdNews. “Transparency and openness is important to us.”

On Monday, the board gave preliminary approval to proposals that would crack down on bad teacher evaluation data and tighten Idaho’s dual-credit policy. Those two decisions will be reconsidered, Freeman said, because board officials are concerned the meeting was not properly publicized and the agenda lacked detail. “We’ll take a mulligan and do it again so everyone has full and fair disclosure,” he said. “It was a perfect storm of events. I don’t think we did anything wrong (legally), but we’re going to hold another meeting.” EdNews reporter Jennifer Swindell has a full report here.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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