Office of Performance Evaluations

Jurisdiction in Indian country

Shared jurisdiction complicates interactions and relationships among stakeholders working in Indian country.

Child welfare system

Gaps in placement services, program capacity, organizational culture, and system-level oversight prevent the child welfare system from performing at a high level of expectation.

K-12 education funding

Many of the funding formulas for special education and programs in the support budget for K-12 public education are not based on need or actual costs.

Administrative hearings

A risk of real or perceived bias is present in all administrative hearings. Idaho agencies have implemented a variety of safeguards to mitigate this risk.

Behavioral health

The Legislature and the Department of Health and Welfare have successfully addressed concerns about the overreliance on psychosocial rehabilitation.

Health districts

The formula that distributes state general funds to public health districts is not clearly or consistently linked to program needs.

Holiday leave

A policy debated since 1997, holiday leave is interpreted and implemented differently among state agencies

Schoolnet

Goals for a statewide instructional management system were not realized because of poor management, decisions, and system functionality.

ISEE

Planning and implementing the Idaho System for Education Excellence fell short but can still become a sustainable K–12 longitudinal data system.

Legal services

Some outsourced legal services could be given to the Office of the Attorney General and save the state money

Salary savings

Salary savings is not an adequate tool for bridging the gap between actual employee pay and policy pay rates set by the state