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Conservatives win big on education during the 2021 Idaho legislative session

By Wayne Hoffman
May 6, 2021
If there’s one thing to remember from the 2021 legislative session, it’s that the Idaho Legislature became the first legislative body in the country to successfully push back against the Marxist indoctrination happening in primary, secondary, and higher education.  The Legislature rejected a $6 million federal grant for pre-kindergarten, a grant that would have given […]
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Teachers, parents, and kids need Idaho lawmakers to stop public school indoctrination

By Wayne Hoffman
May 1, 2021
Idaho education officials are being dishonest when they say there’s no evidence of leftist indoctrination in our public schools and universities. They’re also being dishonest when they claim that the newly-signed House Bill 377 prevents critical race theory from being taught.  The legislation is certainly helpful. It says that students can no longer be compelled […]
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Statist of the Week: Sen. Fred Martin

By Wayne Hoffman
April 30, 2021
This week’s winner was also recently featured as a part of a cabal of statists known as the Flip Flop Five: Patti Anne Lodge, Jim Woodward, Jim Guthrie, Jim Patrick, and Fred Martin. These state senators voted to sustain the governor’s veto of a bill that would have rolled back the governor’s emergency powers.  Now, […]
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The latest higher education budget isn't an improvement

By Fred Birnbaum
April 29, 2021
The Idaho House rejected Senate Bill 1179, the college and university budget, in a 13-57 vote. The lopsided rejection reflected, among other things, no meaningful reductions to address universities’ propensity to use public money to advance social activism, critical race theory, and a generally leftist world view. In addition, many credible stories emerged of conservative-leaning […]
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Registration: Fighting Woke Classrooms in Idaho

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff
April 26, 2021
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Idaho charter school pushed BLM, anti-gun propaganda on second-graders

By Anna Miller
April 26, 2021
A public charter school in Garden City pushed activism on second-grade children by telling them to create “protest signs promoting social justice.” The picketing signs featuring Black Lives Matter fist symbols are hung across the walls of Future Public School. The signs, written by seven-year-olds under the instruction of adults, have messages like, “From now […]
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Idaho House lives up to conservative promises, faces left-leaning Senate

By Wayne Hoffman
April 20, 2021
Idaho has the most conservative House of Representatives it has ever seen. That is not the doing of House Speaker Scott Bedke. Bedke hasn’t changed at all, clocking in at 66 percent right now on the Idaho Freedom Index.  What’s different is the makeup of the rest of the Republicans serving in the state House […]
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Meridian Middle School newsletter urges teachers to see skin color and check privilege

By Dustin Hurst
April 16, 2021
A newsletter made available to teachers and staff at Meridian Middle School encourages readers to engage in “culturally relevant teaching,” a nice-sounding phrase that masks what the document actually seeks.  The document, entitled “Stall Seat Journal” because it’s available in bathroom stalls at Meridian Middle School, encourages educators to see students’ skin color, a key […]
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Vote against public schools budget shows the leadership America needs

By Wayne Hoffman
April 16, 2021
Yes, public school students across the country are being exposed to social justice indoctrinating concepts including critical race theory. Yes, teachers are being trained how to view certain students as victims of systemic racism and sexism and that those ideologies are baked into American institutions.  Yes, that’s also happening here in Idaho.  That is why […]
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The radical agenda of Boise State University’s new sociology course

By Anna Miller
April 15, 2021
Boise State University is offering a new Sociology course this year on white privilege, critical race theory, and intersectionality.  Boise State has faced months of scrutiny from the Legislature for social justice indoctrination on campus. In a historic vote Legislators even killed the university budget, Senate Bill 1179,  by a margin of 57-13, calling for […]
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Rather than abandon indoctrination agenda, University of Idaho president plays the blame game

By Wayne Hoffman
April 12, 2021
University of Idaho President C. Scott Green is trying to convince lawmakers and donors that his school is completely innocent when it comes to spending money on social justice initiatives and indoctrination on campus. He sent an email to this effect on Friday, April 9, attacking the Idaho Freedom Foundation.  He should know better. I […]
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Lawmakers seem ready to end radical indoctrination programs in higher education

By Wayne Hoffman
April 9, 2021
Congratulations to members of Idaho’s House of Representatives, who voted 57-13 Wednesday against a bill that would have allowed the continued funding of social justice programs on our state’s public higher education campuses.  Now the real work begins. Lawmakers must still pass a budget for Boise State University, University of Idaho, Lewis-Clark State College, and […]
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