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If you're feeling a financial pinch this month, blame the school supplies. It's fun to get new binders, erasable pens, and gadgets, but it sets most of us back more than $600 this month.

Rebecca Bonner is an art teacher in Texas who is inspiring the internet with her doodle skirt. This is an idea that we could use in Treasure Valley schools and at home too, for some clothes that will have the whole office talking.

Kids rejoice with the occasional "snow day." Parents, maybe not so much, if you're like me and have to work while wondering what to suddenly do with the kids. Bottom line, we want everyone to be safe this morning so the following schools have closed for the day.

I'm all for a four-day work week, but a four-day school week?! Seems like a big mess to me, but this Idaho school district is highly considering it.

Jobs in the high-tech sector are in huge demand right now, and a national technology training company is opening a campus at Trailhead in downtown Boise in January to help you get ready. They say you can become a software developer in 14 weeks!

Winter parties are happening this week at Treasure Valley schools, and if you're looking to give a thank-you gift to a teacher that he or she will really appreciate, we've got several good ideas. And they're all affordable.

If you're able to whip in and whip out when you're picking up the kids from school, there are a whole lot of other parents who are jealous of your mastery of the situation. Sometimes it takes a half hour, and that leaves plenty of time for things like power naps.

With the first day of school in Boise today we know two things -- Pictures of kids with backpacks will take over your social media pages, and you might hear someone say, "Is it just me, or did mom seem a little too happy about the first day of school?" We have a few other quotes that might make your first day.

One way to beat the heat this weekend will be on a dunk tank at a Boise back-to-school festival. And proceeds will help an elementary school build a new reading center.

It's Teacher Appreciation Day today, and to some of the hardest working most generous people I know, I want to say thank you for all you do for so many of us.