Voices

The State Board has a public duty to facilitate public meetings and extensive debate for a transaction so large and so transformative of Idaho’s higher education system.

Let’s be clear. Educational vouchers will benefit only the Boise-based wealthy.

The biggest problem with HB 415 is that it violates a conservative principle of local control.

Extremist legislators have been relentlessly and unjustifiably attacking libraries and librarians since out-of-state dark money groups placed them on the target list a couple of years ago.

The Board of the Idaho Association of School Resource Officers opposes a bill that would allow school staff to carry firearms on campus.

Idaho’s legislators should not be fooled. If the tax credit passes, the voucher lobbyists will be back to expand it and they will continue pressuring lawmakers to pass an education savings account.

No one on school district property should be allowed to carry a gun, except properly trained school resource officers.

To long-time Republicans who have been left behind by their party, I invite you to take a closer look at Idaho Democrats.

I am happy to report that our schools do focus on reading and math.

Some people, who simply don’t know what they are talking about, falsely claim the Blaine Amendment is a “dead letter”