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Three “Very Icky” Education Bills

By Ronald M. Nate, Ph.D.
March 11, 2025
The education establishment is hard at work in the legislative process this year. As usual, they want to preserve their already huge K-12 education budget of $3.3 billion. Also, as usual, they want to expand their enterprise and add new spending that will “feed the beast” for years and decades to come.  Last week, we […]
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Accountability Means Something Different to Leftists

By Ronald M. Nate, Ph.D.
March 8, 2025
It was an amazing display two weeks ago in the Idaho Capitol. Simultaneously, two bills were being debated in the House and Senate. In the House was the Medicaid expansion reinforcement bill, House Bill 138. In the Senate was the school choice tax credit bill, House Bill 93. Hold on for the amazing part. Let’s […]
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This one's for you, Maurice

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
March 3, 2025
The fight for school choice in Idaho started long ago with a legislator from Nampa My friend Maurice Clements, a Republican state representative from Nampa, had one major ambition for his time in the Legislature: loosen the government’s grip on education. In 1976, Maurice proposed legislation that said students who opt out of the public […]
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The Slippery Slope of Medical Mandates

By Dr. John Livingston
February 27, 2025
Recently, I listened to very compelling testimony before the Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Senate Bill 1036, which calls for a 10-year pause on vaccines or “any therapy” that uses messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. This technology is currently being used in two COVID vaccines. The bill is sponsored by Brandon Shippy, R-New Plymouth, and […]
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Pocatello Officials are Spending Millions With Limited Oversight: Whatever Happened to Transparency in Government?

By Rachel Hazelip, M.A.P.P.
February 20, 2025
Do you blindly trust the government to spend your hard-earned money, enact policy, and make decisions that deeply affect your and your family’s lives without oversight or accountability?  Yeah, neither do we. Local governments often have little oversight from the state or citizens, which commonly leads to a slippery slope of neglecting procedures, hiding information, […]
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The Pay Raise Fire Hose is Wide Open

By Fred Birnbaum
February 14, 2025
Late last week, after several failed attempts, the Legislature’s Joint Finance Appropriation Committee (JFAC) set the state employee pay raise. Rather than a strict percentage, the pay raise, known as the Change in Employee Compensation (CEC), provides a $1.05 to $1.55 per hour increase range for most state employees, with $1.55 roughly equaling a 5% […]
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Idaho’s Proposed Social Studies Standards Embrace CRT

By Samuel T. Lair
February 11, 2025
The Idaho Legislature will soon decide whether to approve the newly revised K-12 social studies standards (Standards) developed by the State Department of Education (SDE) over the past year. Last session, the Legislature adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 116, directing the SDE to create standards that emphasize the history of Western civilization, provide a factual history […]
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Of Course We Can Afford More Tax Cuts

By Fred Birnbaum
February 4, 2025
Three tax-cut bills — four, if you include an education tax credit bill — are before the Idaho Legislature. And yes, they are all affordable. A Little History Over the past five years, ongoing and one-time tax cuts have reduced the tax take by $4.6 billion, of which about $930 million is ongoing. However, it […]
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Is the Governor’s Office Funneling Taxpayer Dollars into an Anti-School Choice Nonprofit?

By Rachel Hazelip, M.A.P.P.
January 31, 2025
Conservatives who watched Governor Brad Little’s 2025 State of the State address on January 6 were underwhelmed by his “promises made, promises kept,” to say the least — particularly regarding school choice. A large section of his speech focused on education in Idaho, but he explained that his priority, “first and foremost [is] our public […]
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Property Taxes Are Extortion

By Ronald M. Nate, Ph.D.
January 28, 2025
“It’s a nice home you have here…” In the movies, it’s called “extortion” — pay us what we require, and nobody gets hurt. But, when the government does the same thing regarding you and your home, it’s called a “property tax.” Nobody truly owns their home when the government demands taxes be paid on it […]
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CRT 2.0

By Samuel T. Lair
January 27, 2025
This article was originally published in The American Mind, a publication of the Claremont Institute In states across the country, left-wing academics and major educational establishments are hijacking the review process for K-12 history and civics curricula. Educators and radicals, in league with one another, are conspiring to turn students against America’s traditional cultural and […]
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Immigration Enforcement: Where the Federal Government Failed, Idaho Can Succeed

By Rachel Hazelip, M.A.P.P.
January 24, 2025
What if someone broke into your house last night, but when you called the police, they were too busy or didn’t care enough to send officers to deal with your situation? You still have the right to protect yourself and your family by kicking the intruder out of your house, even if force is required, […]
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