Voices

If we really want to improve our public schools, we should make a point of valuing our teachers.

There are personal adjustments that lie ahead – including her and her husband, Dave, getting a second home in Boise.

If we take seriously our obligation to honor those who have risked their lives to protect and preserve the American system, each and every one of us must stay better informed on the issues of critical importance to the state and nation.

While I agree that parents have a right to pay for their own child’s religious upbringing or indoctrination, why should I, or other taxpayers like me be forced to do so?

Controlling spending, cutting red tape, and reining in government – like we’ve done for years in Idaho – would be impossible with an overactive legislative branch.

We need to take aggressive and immediate steps to find solutions to the teacher shortages.

Online Idaho, the Board’s digital campus, continues to grow and will begin showcasing more of our institutions’ online courses and degree pathways next year.

Idaho students held their ground academically better than their peers across the country, which is likely a reflection of our schools reopening earlier than in other states.

Women still have the right to choose, we have the right to choose each other and this must be done at the ballot box in November.