Day: June 30, 2014

Video: Idaho Reports, 6.27.14

Talking about the fallout from the conventions, to a preview of the fall elections, on this week’s “Idaho Reports.”

Candidates spar on Hobby Lobby, plus …

The back-and-forth between Gov. Butch Otter and challenger A.J. Balukoff also touched on K-12 funding and Propositions 1, 2 and 3.

Cronin: ‘No time to be complacent’

Boise’s normally low-key school board elections are officially under way, with former state Rep. Brian Cronin firing out the first news release of the summer campaign.

Lawmaker joins Balukoff team, temporarily

Boise Democratic Rep. Mat Erpelding will serve as spokesman for the A.J. Balukoff campaign through July, while spokesman Mike Lanza is on leave.

Must we abandon our core mission to survive?

If breaking a key tenet of a school’s charter is allowed in the name of raising high stakes test scores, then the charter school movement is dead. Public charter schools have been assimilated into the regular public school system Borg.