Funding Shift

Idaho’s school for the deaf and blind in Gooding is now under a newly formed board. State lawmakers decided to move it out from under the education board and created the Idaho Bureau of Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind. The school dropped its summer programs as part of an effort to slice more than half-a-million dollars from the yearly budget of nearly $9 million. With the change in administration, the school now can access money from the education stabilization fund because it falls as a line item in the public schools budget.