A Dem Speaks Out

Idaho Legislature still at work

Appropriation bills seem to come out of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee later every year. This year legislators were still...

Vouchers, Launch and a deadline

“Should the State of Idaho…divert tax dollars to private K-12 education, including private religious schools and for-profit schools?”...

Republicans again push to fund private schools

Does anyone else find it funny that Idaho legislators–who want to stop school boards from asking voters to vote on bonds time after...

Protestors ignore reality

Last week opposition to a policy being considered by the Caldwell School Board got national attention when hundreds turned out to protest...

I can’t buy into ‘blue management’, ‘high’ taxes, and attacks on schools

Recently I attended a forum sponsored by the Star Chamber of Commerce that featured legislative candidates from the new District 10...

Beware the Reps’ revenge

If you're glad this year’s legislature has wrapped things up and gone home, you’ve got 12 Democrats to thank. The legislature can’t go...

What teachers wish our legislators knew

Too many Idaho legislators know a lot about political strategies and party message but too little about the motivations and needs of...

Vote for our kids!

I’m skeptical enough about education funding that, when I learned that Governor Little was proposing a $300 million increase (11%), I...