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S12492024 Regular Session

Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding teacher spending accounts.

SCHOOLS -- Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding teacher spending accounts.

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This bill creates “teacher spending accounts” to help offset costs educators incur for things like classroom supplies and materials, and organizational. Idaho teachers spend hundreds, even thousands of dollars, a year out of their own pockets to provide basic supplies for their classrooms. This bill creates a vehicle to address that problem by directing the State Department of Education to develop a plan and process to distribute money directly to teachers to defray costs for classroom-related expenses. None of the funds can be used for administration at the school or district level, and the money goes straight to the classroom.

Reported Printed; referred to Education

Session
2024
Chamber
senate
Status date
Jan 26, 2024
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