33-301. SCHOOL DISTRICTS BODIES CORPORATE. Each school district, now or hereafter established, when validly organized and existing, is declared to be a body corporate and politic, and in its corporate capacity may sue and be sued and may acquire, hold and convey real and personal property necessary to its establishment, extension and existence. It shall […]
33-302. CLASSIFICATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. Elementary school districts shall give instruction only to pupils in grades one (1) through eight (8), and may give instruction in kindergarten. All other school districts shall give instruction to pupils in grades one (1) through twelve (12), and may give instruction in kindergarten, and shall maintain secondary schools giving […]
33-303. RECLASSIFICATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. a. Whenever the board of trustees of an elementary school district shall propose to submit to the qualified electors of the district the question of issuance of bonds for the purpose of acquiring or building any secondary school building, or whenever the board of trustees of an elementary school district […]
33-304. JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICTS. In any joint district, the duties imposed upon, and the records required to be kept by, the county commissioners or any other county officer, in respect to school districts, including the assessment of taxable property and the levying of and collection of taxes, shall be performed or kept by the commissioners […]
33-305. NAMING AND NUMBERING SCHOOL DISTRICTS. Each school district as the same is organized on the effective date of this act shall bear the same number as theretofore. Excepting specially chartered school districts, each school district operating a secondary school, or secondary schools, on said date shall be designated by number and county, after the […]
33-306. BOUNDARIES OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. There shall be no part of the area of the state of Idaho not included in the area of some school district. A legal description of the boundaries of each school district, as now or hereafter established, shall be kept by the state board of education and by the board […]
33-307. CORRECTING OR ALTERING SCHOOL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. (1) Whenever the state board of education shall find that school district boundaries should be corrected or altered, because of error in the legal description of the boundaries of any school district, or for any other reason, including, but not limited to: (a) Any part of the area […]
33-308. EXCISION AND ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY. (1) A board of trustees of any school district, including a specially chartered school district, or one-fourth (1/4) or more of the school district electors residing in an area of not more than fifty (50) square miles within which there is no schoolhouse or facility necessary for the operation […]
33-309. LAPSED DISTRICTS — ANNEXATION. (1) If the state board of education shall find any school district: (a) Has not operated its school for a period of one (1) school year; (b) In which the average daily attendance during each term of not less than seven (7) months in the two (2) school years last […]
33-310. CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. The boards of trustees of two (2) or more contiguous school districts may submit to the state board of education a plan for the consolidation of their districts into a single new district. The plan shall contain as a minimum the following, and in addition any other information required by […]
33-310A. CONSOLIDATION OF CONTIGUOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS. In addition to the procedure contained in section 33-310, Idaho Code: A. five per cent (5%) or more of the registered voters from each of two (2) or more contiguous school districts, when such districts coincide with election precincts, or, B. a number of registered voters equal to fifteen […]
33-310B. FEASIBILITY STUDY AND PLAN FOR CONSOLIDATION. All school districts operating one (1) or more high schools may conduct a feasibility study and prepare a plan for school consolidation, which may also include school district consolidation. The cost of such feasibility studies and plans shall be reimbursed at an amount not to exceed ten thousand […]
33-311. PLAN OF CONSOLIDATION SUBMITTED TO ELECTORS. The state board of education may approve or disapprove any plan proposing consolidation, and if it approves the same the department of education shall give notice thereof to the board of trustees of each school district proposing to consolidate and to the board of county commissioners in each […]
33-312. DIVISION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT. A school district may be divided so as to form not more than two (2) districts each of which must have contiguous boundaries, in the manner hereinafter provided, except that any district which operates and maintains a secondary school or schools shall not be divided unless the two (2) districts […]
33-313. TRUSTEE ZONES. (1) Each elementary school district shall be divided into three (3) trustee zones and each other school district shall be divided into no fewer than five (5) nor more than nine (9) trustee zones according to the provisions of section 33-501, Idaho Code. A school district that has had a change in […]
33-314. APPEAL FROM ORDER OF STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Any order of the state board of education affecting the organization, consolidation, division, annexation, excision, or change in boundaries of any school district, or districts, may be appealed to the district court of any county in which the district, or proposed district, lies or shall lie. […]
33-315. COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — LEGISLATIVE INTENT DECLARED. The legislature of the state of Idaho hereby declares its intent to encourage school districts to cooperatively provide those educational services which they are unable to offer singly or which can be provided more economically and/or more efficiently in combination with other districts. History: [33-315, added 1967, […]
33-316. COOPERATIVE CONTRACT TO EMPLOY SPECIALIZED PERSONNEL AND/OR PURCHASE MATERIALS. The trustees of two (2) or more school districts may cooperatively enter into written contract to employ specialized personnel and/or purchase materials which in the judgment of the contracting school districts are necessary or desirable for the conduct of the business of the school districts. […]
33-317. COOPERATIVE SERVICE AGENCY — POWERS — DUTIES — LIMITATIONS. (1) Two (2) or more school districts may join together for educational purposes to form a service agency to purchase materials and/or provide services for use individually or in combination. The cooperative service agency thus formed shall be empowered to adopt bylaws, and act as […]
33-317A. LEGISLATIVE INTENT — COOPERATIVE SERVICE AGENCY — SCHOOL PLANT FACILITY LEVY. (1) For the purpose of constructing and maintaining facilities of a cooperative service agency, a properly constituted cooperative service agency may request from its member school districts additional funding to be furnished by a tax levy not to exceed four-tenths of one percent […]
