By Sarah Meskin The Idaho Youth Ranch has officially brought its latest project to life: The Residential Center for Healing and Resilience. Within this 24/7 Residential Center is Promise Academy, a year-round public charter school. My organization, Bluum, provided...
by Darren Svan, Idaho Education News Longtime Payette educator and administrator Rick Hale has been a principal without students — or a school — for the past year. That’s all changed. Through the fall and into spring, Hale watched concrete walkways between buildings...
by Alan Gottlieb It’s safe to say that rarely has a public charter school been as welcomed into a community by the local school district and seemingly everyone else as Elevate Academy East, a career and technical education middle and high school opening in the summer...
by Alan Gottlieb This story also appeared in Idaho Education News In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the learning disruptions and isolation it created, schools are seeing extreme behaviors among a wider array of students than ever before – behaviors that used to...
Charter Alumna returns to North Idaho STEM Charter Academy to teach by Kristen McCarver “I love seeing their faces every day, and especially love seeing their excitement.” Paige Pence is a third-year Kindergarten teacher at North Idaho STEM Charter Academy in...
