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Future Costs of Idaho SB1038’s Universal Education Savings Accounts Projected to Rise Sharply
ALEJANDRA CERNA RIOS - FEBRUARY 20, 2023 Senate Bill 1038, which is before the Idaho Senate, would create a universal private education...

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Feb 21, 20231 min read
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Statehouse roundup, 2/15/23: After lengthy testimony, divisive ESA bill heads to Senate floor
Sadie Dittenber - 02/15/2023 The Senate Education Committee sent a $45 million education savings accounts bill to the Senate floor...

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Feb 16, 20234 min read
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Idaho lawmakers seem obsessed with picking on trans kids. Leave the kids aloneRead more at: https:
By the Idaho Statesman Editorial Board - February 12, 2023 For yet another year, a significant portion of the GOP in the Idaho...

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Feb 13, 20233 min read
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Report: Deaths among pregnant women in Idaho more than doubled in 2020
Kelcie Moseley -Morris - December 12, 2022 Idaho women who died from pregnancy-related problems doubled between 2019 and 2020, according...

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Feb 9, 20233 min read
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Committee passes bill to ban most gender-affirming care for minors
Laura Guido - February 8, 2023 BOISE — After two hours of emotional and at-times contradictory testimony, the House Judiciary Committee...

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Feb 9, 20234 min read
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OPINION: After two decades of studying voucher programs, I’m now firmly opposed to them
Joshua Cowen - July 20, 2022 n recent years, nearly half of all states have created publicly funded private K-12 tuition plans,...

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Feb 9, 20234 min read
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Statehouse roundup, 2.2.23: School choice debate continues; Yamamoto pushes facilities issue
Kevin Richert and Sadie Dittenber - 02/02/2023 Approximately 17% of students — excluding students at private schools or homeschools or...

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Feb 9, 20233 min read
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Records show powerful, wealthy funders outside Idaho back school choice campaign
Kelcie Moseley-Morris - 02/03/2023 The national special interests groups who have poured millions of dollars into efforts to make...

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Feb 9, 202312 min read
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Idaho panel approves a bill that would make medical care for trans youth a felony
Audrey Dutton - February 7, 2023 Republican lawmakers in an Idaho House committee voted Tuesday to restrict the rights of parents to...

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Feb 9, 20234 min read
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Idaho lawmaker's children's books on AR-15s and feminism have some raising a red flag
Sydney Kidd - January 30, 2023 In bookstores and online, there are myriad children’s books with a variety of different purposes. Some are...

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Jan 30, 20237 min read
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Idaho legislator changes testimony ban to allow people under 18 to testify with parental permission
CLARK CORBIN - JANUARY 27, 2023 With about 30 young people in the audience looking on, House Judiciary, Rules and Administration...

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Jan 30, 20234 min read
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Idaho’s new K-12 schools superintendent asks for $2.5B public school budget
CLARK CORBIN - JANUARY 26, 2023 Wednesday was Debbie Critchfield’s 23rd day on the job as Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction. She...

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Jan 30, 20234 min read
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Idaho will spend $78M more if Medicaid expansion ends, state official tells Legislature
AUDREY DUTTON - JANUARY 23, 2023 If voters had not approved the expansion of Idaho Medicaid to low-income adults, Idahoans would have...

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Jan 30, 20233 min read
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School choice advocates gather at the Idaho State Capitol
ERIN BANKS RUSBY - Jan 24, 2023 BOISE — Last year, Marilyn Villagomez thought she would drop out of school. “At my previous school, I...

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Jan 30, 20233 min read
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Medicaid expansion: Health and Welfare committees hear update, prepare to make recommendation
LAURA GUIDO - Jan 23, 2023 BOISE — Five years after Idaho voters approved Medicaid expansion, it’s time for state lawmakers to evaluate...

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Jan 25, 20234 min read
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Analysis: School choice is a quagmire for Critchfield, and a proxy fight for Idaho’s GOP
KEVIN RICHERT - JANUARY 20, 2023 For Idaho’s new superintendent of public instruction, private schools are a political quagmire. Debbie...

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Jan 25, 20234 min read
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Spelling it Out: Types of Schools
Carly Flandro - 01/23/2023 What are traditional schools? Most Idaho schools (705 total) are traditional schools. They are public, funded...

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Jan 25, 20233 min read
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Statehouse roundup, 1.23.23: State Board president warns of starved higher ed system
Kevin Richert and Sadie Dittenber - 01/23/2023 Idaho has changed its narrative on K-12 funding, with hundreds of millions of new funding...

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Jan 25, 20235 min read
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Idaho children’s organization says debate over JFAC changes is holding up supplemental budgets
CLARK CORBIN - JANUARY 23, 2023 Officials with the Idaho Children Are Primary organization have told Idaho legislators that a debate over...

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Jan 25, 20233 min read
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MONDAY! You’re invited to 11th Annual IBE Legislative Academy (January 9, 2023)
The 11th Annual IBE Legislative Academy Join us for 11th Annual IBE Legislative Academy, January 9, 2023 at 8:00 AM. Our speaker will be...

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Jan 6, 20231 min read
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