The Blaine County School District Board of Trustees is opening discussions about a potential workforce housing site for Blaine County School District employees.

Several organizations in the Wood River Valley came together this summer to hold the SummerBridge Education Camp, a program aimed at recapturing educational days lost to closures from the COVID-19 pandemic and to give kids a learning experience that feels more like summer camp than summer school.

The Blaine County School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday unanimously approved a motion to allow the extension of the Toe of the Hill trail through an easement near Wood River High School.

BOISE—The Idaho Endowment Fund that distributes money to public schools and other entities lost $400 million in the fiscal year that wrapped up at the end of June, state officials said Tuesday.

The American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers (AACRAO) has bestowed The College of Southern Idaho’s Vice President of Student Life and Enrollment Services Dr. Jonathan Lord with a nationally recognized Strategic Enrollment Management endorsement.

The ARCH Community Housing Trust, an nonprofit developer focused on solving housing issues in Blaine County, raised more than $900,000 to help develop affordable housing for Blaine County School District staff, the BCSD announced Sunday.

The Blaine County School District Board of Trustees will meet at 6 p.m. in regular session on Tuesday, July 19, at the Community Campus to consider asking the city of Hailey to annex a pair of district-owned lots considered ideal for workforce housing. 

Statewide results from the Idaho Reading Indicator test show that more than two-thirds of all Idaho students from kindergarten through third grade were reading at grade level by the end of the school year last year, according to Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra.

The Blaine County School District’s board of trustees finalized its budget for the upcoming school year on Tuesday, agreeing to a nearly $69.2 million plan for 2022-23.

The Blaine County School District will ask voters later this summer to approve a levy for up to $5 million for five years to cover the costs of maintaining and renovating district-owned buildings.

The Blaine County School District Board of Trustees will hold its annual hearing on the 2022-23 budget Tuesday, June 14, at 6 p.m. at the Community Campus in Hailey.

In many communities throughout southern Idaho, less than half of students demonstrate reading proficiency. And, two years of COVID-hampered class time only exacerbated any struggles in education.

The Blaine County School District Board of Trustees is accepting applications to join its three advisory committees for the school district until Friday, June 10, at 5 p.m.

On the heels of Gov. Brad Little signing Senate Bill 1404—an effort to retain teachers during what the language of the bill called a teacher shortage emergency across Idaho—the Blaine County School District Board of Trustees unanimously approved an approximately $1,000 one-time bonus to qual…

Wood River High School will hold its annual graduation ceremony Friday, May 27, in Phil Homer stadium at the Hailey school. The event will begin at 4 p.m., with the gates opening at 3 p.m.

The Blaine County School District board of trustees and representatives of the district’s teachers union agreed to an updated contract earlier this month, setting the terms, compensation and working conditions for the 2022-23 school year.

IDeal, Idaho’s 529 College Savings Program, released its 2021 annual report this month, showing growth in several categories compared to 2020, including total accounts, contributions to accounts from friends and family members, total amount of money saved with the program for future educatio…

The Blaine County School District will be participating in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program to provide free meals to kids and teens during summer 2022. Free breakfast and lunches will be provided at no cost to children ages 1-18 beginning in June at Wood River…

The Blaine County School District will offer free, half-day preschool at four locations for all children in the school district during the 2022-23 academic year, the school board announced Monday.

The Sage School in Hailey is hosting a “local-farm-to-table” feast planned, prepared and presented by the school’s 10th and 11th graders at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 13, at Mountain Humane in Hailey.

Numerous Wood River High School seniors walked away from school Monday night, April 18, with smiles on their faces and promissory certificates in hand after dozens of Blaine County businesses and organizations doled out scholarships to support their higher education.

A Wood River Middle School team won the “Battle of the Books” reading event at Victory Middle School in Meridian on April 9.

One month after a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against the city of Hailey by the Sandpoint-based Health Freedom Defense Fund and several area residents, the anti-mask group has pulled its separate, nearly identical lawsuit against the board of the Blaine County School District.

Charitable organizations are stepping up to fill a gap in education funding resulting from political wrangling over early-childhood education in Idaho.