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Montana's News Station - Fair. Accurate. To the Point. -Official: Idaho school for deaf, blind will survive, but where?
Idaho plans to continue to offer some residential services to its blind and deaf students, but State Board of Education Director Mike Rush said he's uncertain just what will become of the 99-year-old state School for the Deaf and Blind in Gooding.
His agency is studying how best to provide these services, now that more and more programs for vision- and hearing-impaired are being delivered in the form of outreach programs to local school districts.
That study will be complete in June.
The issue emerged in 2006, as concerns rose about the cost of the school and some suggested closing it.
Yearly costs for those students who live there run about $88,000 annually for Idaho taxpayers.
Still, Gooding leaders fear an economic vacuum if the facility were moved somewhere else, such as Boise.
Idaho plans to continue to offer some residential services to its blind and deaf students, but State Board of Education Director Mike Rush said he's uncertain just what will become of the 99-year-old state School for the Deaf and Blind in Gooding.
His agency is studying how best to provide these services, now that more and more programs for vision- and hearing-impaired are being delivered in the form of outreach programs to local school districts.
That study will be complete in June.
The issue emerged in 2006, as concerns rose about the cost of the school and some suggested closing it.
Yearly costs for those students who live there run about $88,000 annually for Idaho taxpayers.
Still, Gooding leaders fear an economic vacuum if the facility were moved somewhere else, such as Boise.