Browse past news stories for Nampa Charter School in Nampa, ID.

• Religion News in Brief (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
  posted on November 25, 2009 at 03:03:58 pm
  PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon legislative leader plans to introduce a bill to repeal a 1923 state law that bans teachers from wearing religious garb.
• Charter school commission and Nampa Classical Academy clash (The Idaho Statesman)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 06:37:56 am
  A new Nampa charter school is continuing to butt heads with the Idaho Public Charter School Commission over the use of religious texts in its classical curriculum
• Nampa Charter School gets state warning, again (KTVB Boise)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 05:48:36 am
  NAMPA -- A Nampa charter school learned Monday morning that it is in more trouble with the state.  Nampa Classical Academy had already tallied up three warnings from the state charter commission, and Monday added numbers four and five. Before the school year started, the state told Nampa Classical Academy it could not use religious texts in the classroom.   The school filed a lawsuit to get that ...
• State commission reprimands Nampa charter school (KTVB Boise)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 08:48:35 pm
    BOISE -- The state Public Charter School Commission has reprimanded the publicly funded Nampa Classical Academy over the use of religious texts in the classroom. The agency Monday sent the charter school a notice of defect -- the first step in a lengthy process that could result in closure -- after reviewing an academy reading list for high school students. The list included the Bible. The ...
• Commission, Nampa charter school butt heads over classroom use of religious texts (The Idaho Statesman)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 06:42:02 pm
  The Idaho Public Charter School Commission issued two more notices of defect against Nampa Classical
• State commission reprimands Nampa charter school (KIVI Boise)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 06:34:03 pm
  Associated Press - November 23, 2009 1:24 PM ET BOISE, Idaho (AP) - The state Public Charter School Commission has reprimanded the publicly funded Nampa Classical Academy over the use of...
• Idaho AG's office rebukes Nampa charter school (KIVI Boise)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 01:04:03 am
  NAMPA, Idaho (AP) -- The Idaho Attorney General's office is telling Nampa Classical Academy officials the state won't back down from pursuing information about the charter school's possible use of
• Idaho AG's office rebukes Nampa charter school (FOX 12 Idaho)
  posted on November 21, 2009 at 10:43:17 pm
  Associated Press - November 21, 2009 5:24 PM ET NAMPA, Idaho (AP) - The Idaho Attorney General's office is telling Nampa Classical Academy officials the state won't back down from pursuing...
• Commission warns charter (Idaho Press-Tribune)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 07:17:46 am
  BOISE — The Idaho Public Charter School Commission voted 5-0 Thursday to issue a notice of defects to Nampa Classical Academy for nine reported failures by the school to comply with the school's charter and other regulations. The defects involve, in part, improper teacher certification, fiscal instability, failure to provide proper Title I — or remedial  — education and failure to allow ...
• Nampa charter school gets warning from state (KBCI Boise)
  posted on November 13, 2009 at 01:33:12 am
  Nampa Classical Academy has drawn attention for its lawsuit against the state to use the bible in class, but that's not all the charter commission is concerned about.
• Charter addresses issues (Idaho Press-Tribune)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 06:20:46 am
  NAMPA — Leaders of the Nampa charter school that has come under fire from the Idaho Charter Commission are working to correct some school "growing pains," a school board member said Wednesday. The Nampa Classical Academy will today address several issues that could lead to reprimands from the Idaho Public School Charter Commission at the panel's meeting. But the school has changed board members ...
• Nampa Charter School Denies Public Records Request (KIVI Boise)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 04:49:03 am
  NAMPA, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho public charter school has denied a state agency's request for documents regarding the potential use of religious texts in the classroom.
• Nampa charter school denies public records request (KTVB Boise)
  posted on November 11, 2009 at 09:03:35 pm
    NAMPA -- An Idaho public charter school has denied a state agency's request for documents regarding the potential use of religious texts in the classroom. Nampa Classical Academy's acting board chairman Michael Moffett says a public records request from the Idaho Public Charter School Commission was declined because of an ongoing lawsuit. The new charter school sued Idaho officials in federal ...
• Commission: NCA minutes imply improper certification (Idaho Press-Tribune)
  posted on November 3, 2009 at 06:31:09 am
  NAMPA — An Idaho Public Charter School Commission official has found information she believes supports the commission's concern that a Nampa charter school's director of operations is an administrator working without required administrative certification. But the new school's acting board chairman says the position's contract does not describe the position as administrative.
• State officials put Nampa charter school on notice (The Idaho Statesman)
  posted on October 24, 2009 at 06:00:47 am
  BOISE - The state state's Public Charter School Commission, which authorizes and governs about
• Nampa Charter school sues Idaho to use Bible as textbook (The Idaho Statesman)
  posted on September 2, 2009 at 06:03:00 am
  NAMPA - The Nampa Classical Academy claims the state of Idaho has "decided that the Bible is no
• State: No Bible in school (Idaho Press-Tribune)
  posted on August 15, 2009 at 06:30:24 am
  Commission bars use of religious texts in new Nampa Classical Academy BOISE — The Idaho Public Charter School Commission told the Nampa Classical Academy Friday it can't use the Bible as an instructional text.
• Nampa charter school to use Bibles as textbooks (Argus Observer)
  posted on June 29, 2009 at 10:50:43 pm
  NAMPA — In a former carpet and lighting store turned church, the founders of a new charter school in Nampa sit before a row of pews and outline the curriculum they’ll introduce to more than 550 students in August.
• Nampa charter school to open in August (KTVB Boise)
  posted on June 22, 2009 at 05:04:02 pm
  NAMPA -- The headmaster of the fourth public charter school to open in the southwest Idaho town of Nampa says 557 students in kindergarten through ninth grades are enrolled for classes scheduled to begin in August.
• Nampa charter school to open in August (KIFI Idaho Falls)
  posted on June 22, 2009 at 04:27:06 pm
  Associated Press - June 22, 2009 12:24 PM ET NAMPA, Idaho (AP) - The headmaster of the fourth public charter school to open in the southwest Idaho town of Nampa says 557 students in...