Idaho Code

Idaho Code § 33-125 (2026)

State department of education — Creation — Duties. 

✓ text as last checked Oct. 2026 (this copy records no edition or section history)
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section IClegislature.idaho.gov Justiaon Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

State department of education — Creation — Duties. 

There is hereby established as an executive agency of the state board of education a department known as the state department of education. The state superintendent shall serve as the executive officer of such department and shall have the responsibility for carrying out policies, procedures and duties authorized by law or established by the state board of education for all elementary and secondary school matters, and to administer grants for the promotion of science education as provided in sections 33-128 and 33-129, Idaho Code.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 2020–2025 · leading case: Ybarra v. Legislature of the State of Idaho & ID Bd of Educ., 466 P.3d 421 (Idaho 2020).
Ybarra v. Legislature of the State of Idaho & ID Bd of Educ., 466 P.3d 421 (Idaho 2020). · cites it 8× “, I.C. § 33-125. Importantly, the Superintendent has always been a constitutionally-mandated member of the Board.”
Mike Zeyen v. Bonneville Jt. Dist., 114 F.4th 1129 (9th Cir. 2024). “[t]o supervise and regulate, including by contract with established entities, those extracurricular activities that are by definition outside of or in addition to the regular academic courses or curriculum of a public school, and which extracurricular activities shall not be…”
Roe v. Critchfield, No. 1:23-cv-00315 (D. Idaho Oct. 12, 2023). · cites it 2× “Idaho Code § 33-125 . The other Defendants are the State Board of Education and the members of that Board, as well as the Boise School District, its superintendent, and board members.”
Trakel v. Critchfield, No. 1:25-cv-00115 (D. Idaho Aug. 6, 2025). “§ 33-125. These interlocking statutes make clear that there is a plausible and non-hypothetical connection between Superintendent Critchfield’s role executing the Board’s responsibilities—including the supervision of charter schools like IHLA—and the Trakels’ alleged injury.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.