Idaho’s Ybarra steps down, reveals new job – East Idaho News

BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra is stepping down from her place within the new 12 months after seven years of service.

Ybarra introduced at a State Division of Training Christmas celebration on Dec. 22 that she was leaving to take a place as an elementary college instructor in Mountain House.

“Attempting to decide on my new chapter, I checked out quite a lot of job affords in Idaho and past,” Ybarra stated in a information launch. “In my coronary heart, I spotted that what feels proper at this level is to return to my pure habitat and the place that began me on my skilled journey – the classroom.”

Ybarra will depart her publish Jan. 2 and begin Jan. 4 as a kindergarten instructor at Stephensen Elementary Faculty on Mountain House Air Pressure Base.

Ybarra spent twenty years within the Mountain House Faculty District as a instructor, assistant principal, principal and federal packages director earlier than being elected as Idaho’s twenty fifth superintendent of public instruction in 2014. She took workplace in 2015 and received reelection in 2018.

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ybarra crammed in a substitute instructor, in line with the information launch.

“Once I crammed in instead instructor for colleges hit exhausting by the pandemic,” Ybarra stated, “it jogged my memory how a lot I liked that day by day contact with youngsters, serving to them develop as college students and people.”

Ybarra lives in Mountain House along with her husband, and her son is about to graduate quickly from the College of Idaho and can be part of the navy.

“My time period in workplace ends in the midst of the 12 months, so it is sensible to go house and do what I really like,” she stated. “And I actually sit up for engaged on the Air Pressure base with kids who share the particular pleasure and challenges of getting mother and father who serve our nation.”