Total cost of botched Idaho school internet contract will likely hit $40M

Idaho has repaid the Federal Communications Commission $3.5 million to cover federal funds that went to the Idaho Education Network, a botched statewide school broadband contract.

State leaders made the payment Tuesday as part of a settlement with the federal agency over claims that the state misused more than $14 million in federal money by putting it toward the illegally awarded contract.

The payment is expected to bring the long-running school broadband scandal to an end.

“I appreciate the willingness of all parties involved to work toward a resolution of these issues so that we can move forward with a clean slate,” Idaho Gov. Butch Otter said in a prepared statement on Wednesday

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