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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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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