This one is a bit near and dear to my heart - one of my boys wants to build cars as his career and he needs to start out with a full understanding of the workings - aka, mechanics!  Neither his father or I know enough to get him beyond the basics so the idea of a Vo-Tech high school campus in the Coeur d'Alene area is very attractive to us.

COEUR d'ALENE -- The House Revenue and Tax Committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that would give cooperative service agencies created by school districts the ability to use plant facilities levies to pay for new buildings.

A 100-acre parcel on the Rathdrum Prairie has been secured for use as a professional-technical campus through a partnership of North Idaho College, the North Idaho Manufacturers Consortium, the city of Rathdrum and the owners of the land, the Meyer family of Rathdrum, who all signed an agreement in October outlining their intentions.

NIC is purchasing 40 acres to develop its professional-technical programs, and the Lakeland School District is purchasing 20 acres to use as the site for a future school.

The final 20 acres have been set aside for the Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls and Lakeland school districts to use to build a professional-technical high school.

Full article here.