Bluum is a nonprofit organization helping Idaho become a national model for how to maximize learning outcomes for children and families.
Like every parent, we dream big for our children and whenever possible we try to personalize opportunities to meet their individual needs, interests and skills. We know our children well and want to provide them with every opportunity to grow and succeed in college and beyond. The same principles apply to their K-12 education.
The needs of Idaho’s K-12 student population are changing. The Gem State is expected to see net growth in lower income households and net declines in households with annual incomes above $50,000. We are also becoming more racially diverse.
Idaho foundations come in diverse shapes and sizes. Some are family funds, often created upon the death of a wealthy person and run by surviving family members, that have supported favorite causes for decades.
Public education is critical to Idahoans. In fact, they are more likely to point to public education (50%) as the most important issue facing Idaho today than they are to point to “the economy” (40%), with another 9% saying it is “the environment.”
SPRINGFIELD —The Global Impact STEM Academy hosted a delegation of Idaho lawmakers and educators who were interested in bringing back GISA’s learning model to their home state.
The National Alliance For Public Charter Schools Blog | By Angel Gonzalez
When public conversation turns to charter schools, much of the attention is focused on urban students. In the National Alliance for Public Charter School’s recent report, they highlighted that charter school enrollment growth across the country was concentrated in America’s big cities. The Los Angeles Unified School District alone has 150,000 students attending charter schools, which to put into perspective is about half of Idaho’s total K-12 public school enrollment.
When I travel, I take a lot of pictures. When my children were teens, they would roll their eyes as the shutter on the camera whirred. I wasn’t taking pictures of my kids; I was taking pictures of other people’s kids, buildings, cars, motorcycles carrying five people and a pig, and things that were different from my ordinary life.
The North Idaho STEM Charter Academy in Rathdrum was one of the first public charter schools in Idaho to receive grant support from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation as part of their “20 in 10” initiative.
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