Office of Performance Evaluations
Jurisdiction in Indian country
Shared jurisdiction complicates interactions and relationships among stakeholders working in Indian country.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Behavioral health
The Legislature and the Department of Health and Welfare have successfully addressed concerns about the overreliance on psychosocial rehabilitation.
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Health districts
The formula that distributes state general funds to public health districts is not clearly or consistently linked to program needs.
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Holiday leave
A policy debated since 1997, holiday leave is interpreted and implemented differently among state agencies
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Schoolnet
Goals for a statewide instructional management system were not realized because of poor management, decisions, and system functionality.
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ISEE
Planning and implementing the Idaho System for Education Excellence fell short but can still become a sustainable K–12 longitudinal data system.
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Legal services
Some outsourced legal services could be given to the Office of the Attorney General and save the state money
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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
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Our mission is to promote confidence and accountability in state government through evaluation of programs and policies.
As a nonpartisan, independent office of the Legislature, we evaluate whether state government programs and agencies are operating efficiently and cost-effectively and are achieving intended results. We offer several products to help respond to legislators’ concerns.
We will release a best interest of the child paper in July to supplement the report Child Welfare System.
Scopes for our new assignments will be coming out in May and June.
