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Federal agencies are sexualizing Idaho libraries

By Anna Miller
April 13, 2022
Lawmakers recently cut nearly $4 million from the Idaho Commission for Libraries (ICFL) because it was providing sexually explicit material to K-12 schools. This effort is a meaningful step toward greater accountability in public institutions. However, lawmakers also need to pay closer attention to federal education grants.  A portion of the budget reduction to ICFL […]
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State tries to take control from conservative community college trustees

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
April 12, 2022
The State Board of Education's announcement that it plans to appoint three new members to the North Idaho College Board of Trustees is nothing less than an attempt to wrest control from the remaining two conservative-elected board members.  If the SBOE pulls it off, it would represent an unprecedented takeover of a local education institution […]
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Boise State under investigation for discriminating against men

By Anna Miller
April 7, 2022
The United States Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has opened an investigation into Boise State University’s discriminatory scholarship program.  The OCR complaint (Reference Number 10-22-2061) alleges that “the University is discriminating against male students, based on sex, by offering the Boise State Women in STEM, Medicine, and Law Scholarship, for which only female students are […]
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Jim Jones hates IFF because we hate socialism

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
April 6, 2022
Idaho newspapers don’t run every column Jim Jones writes, but you can bet that if he writes about the Idaho Freedom Foundation, they will publish it — because they hate the IFF as much as Jones does.  Jones’ columns are full of the same lies that we’ve come to expect from him. Jones has started […]
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Leftists won the 2022 Idaho legislative session

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
April 5, 2022
True to form, lawmakers are trying to impress you with a handful of breadcrumbs from the 2022 legislative session, including a small tax break and some pro-life and pro-gun legislation. It’s an election year, after all, and people in office will do their best to make it sound as if their lawmaking made Idaho more […]
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Little’s budget blowout: The hidden story of the 2022 legislative session

By Fred Birnbaum
April 5, 2022
It is hard to find the superlatives to properly describe Idaho’s new budget, which takes effect July 1. It’s breathtaking in terms of the sheer size of the increase, abetted with the infusion of billions of dollars of federal money via the COVID relief fund pipelines.  Idaho has seen a massive infusion of federal funding […]
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Unprofessional, unacceptable, unfundable: Idaho Legislators defund Commission for Libraries by nearly $4 million

By Anna Miller
April 4, 2022
Legislators defunded the Idaho Commision for Libraries (ICFL) nearly $4 million over concerns of providing sexually explicit material to K-12 schools.  The effort reflects the national pattern of parental outrage over obscene materials in school libraries that has incited action from lawmakers in red states including Texas, Florida, and Tennessee.  Prior to cutting the budget, […]
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Recapping Idaho’s year of education micro-reform

By Kaitlyn Shepherd
April 4, 2022
Supporters of education choice and parental rights will remember Idaho’s 2022 legislative session as the Year of the Micro-reform. Instead of implementing meaningful changes that give families control over their children’s education, the Legislature passed inconsequential bills that failed to make major headway in solving the problems plaguing Idaho’s education system.  2022 Session Recap: Education […]
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‘Changed the label, same stuff’: Video reveals CRT still being forced on students in Idaho schools

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff
March 24, 2022
By: Anna Miller and Kaitlyn Shepherd  Despite evidence to the contrary, public figures across Idaho continue to perpetuate the narrative that critical race theory (CRT) and other aspects of Critical Social Justice ideology are not being taught in Idaho’s public schools. The State Board of Education President, Kurt Liebech, argued that regardless of the national […]
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New crisis standards of care law will guarantee healthcare rationing

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
March 21, 2022
One lesson from the so-called pandemic that should have been learned is that the government’s involvement in healthcare is not making things better for patients.  As I’ve pointed out previously, mismanagement by Idaho’s hospital systems over many decades contributed to lack of staff and hospital beds. In addition, the government’s involvement in health education and […]
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The real ‘false narrative’ is that Idaho is safe from social justice agenda

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
March 2, 2022
I got a chuckle out of KTVB’s attempt to discredit the Idaho Freedom Foundation with its four-part “investigative” series on us. I suppose they thought their coverage would be groundbreaking or at least debilitating. Not even close.  More Idahoans than ever are flocking to us because they want to be a part of a sensible […]
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The administrative bloat of ‘diversicrats’ in Idaho’s higher education system

By Anna Miller
February 28, 2022
In 2021, Idaho’s Legislature told state universities to eschew the harmful critical social justice (CSJ) ideology and return to their core educational mission – the advancement of truth. But Idaho’s flagship universities have maintained spending on diversity administrators, or “diversicrats,” and taken their promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) underground by requiring political litmus […]
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