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Stay-home stories: Kearsy Hoffman & V-Sports Arena

By Janae Wilkerson
May 13, 2020
Kearston “Kearsy” Hoffman and her husband Colton are proud to run the V-Sports Arena, an entertainment center with virtual reality, laser tag, and nerf guns. “We have a virtual simulation of falling off an eighty story building that’s so realistic, I’ve seen grown men freeze up and back away. Out of our 200 different experiences, […]
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Utah debacle shows grocery tax’s unpopularity

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff
February 19, 2020
By Bryan Smith | Idaho Freedom Foundation Board Member Utah legislators recently learned an important lesson: People don’t like tax hikes on their milk, cheese, bacon and butter. Idaho lawmakers should learn from Utah’s experience. I fear they won’t. Allow me to recap the story. Late last year, Utah Republicans built a tax reform proposal […]
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House committee votes to repeal Common Core. What’s next for the standards?

By Dustin Hurst
February 5, 2020
On Wednesday morning, House Education Committee members voted 10 to 5 to repeal the Idaho Content Standards, more commonly known as Common Core standards.  The vote came after nearly two hours of passionate debate amongst legislators, who had previously heard nearly nine hours of public testimony on the topic.  Only committee Democrats, plus House Education […]
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How to guarantee higher college tuition costs

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff
January 20, 2020
By Scott Yenor | Special to Idaho Freedom Foundation College costs continue to rise. Columbia, the nation’s tuition leader this past academic year, has seen its price tag climb yet again, to about $60,000 annually for tuition alone, bringing its total annual cost to over $75,000, when counting room and board. Ivy League schools are […]
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Credit Little with containing costs after Kustra’s expensive years at BSU

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
January 18, 2020
Former Boise State University President Bob Kustra says he can’t understand why Gov. Brad Little has decided to keep a lid on state spending even as the economy is growing. “Someone has left the control room of state government, and the autopilot is off course,” Kustra groaned in a recent column.  Though Kustra is confused, […]
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Moon: Idahoans won't be ignored about Common Core

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff
January 13, 2020
State Rep. Dorothy Moon | Guest opinion Common Core is exactly what we thought it was. Try telling that to the Idaho State Board of Education, though. The board’s members won’t hear you. Idaho adopted Common Core standards earlier this decade in hopes that the latest federal education package would solve what ails Idaho schools. […]
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2020 resolution: Let’s talk about what ails the public education system

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
December 27, 2019
One of the first lessons we learn as small children is: Honesty is the best policy Yet, in 2019, my unvarnished assessment of public schools — that government shouldn’t be in the education business — wound up being the quote that lit the media’s collective hair on fire. I also said that public schools are […]
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Education board didn’t hear Idahoans on Common Core

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
December 13, 2019
The optics behind the State Board of Education’s super-quiet decision late last month to reapprove Common Core education standards should not sit well with Idahoans. Residents petitioned the board for hearings on Common Core; five hearings were held across the state. Two days before Thanksgiving, the board reapproved the standards without so much as a […]
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Idaho Education Association’s real agenda: money and power

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
December 7, 2019
My friend and former newspaper colleague, Chuck Malloy, recently wrote an article about the Idaho Education Association that continues an Idaho media tradition of miscategorizing the IEA’s place in the state’s policy arena. The chief problem with Malloy’s commentary is the same one that plagues the Idaho news media generally: Writes cover the IEA as […]
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Help Idaho’s colleges and students by freezing tuition

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
November 15, 2019
Gov. Brad Little’s preemptive “spending reset,” to rein in state spending before the next economic downturn, is a good start to help Idaho taxpayers who could use a break from a decade of a growing state government. But other taxpayers—Idaho’s increasingly put-upon college and university students—also need relief. That relief can be achieved if Little […]
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Test scores continue to flounder while Ybarra celebrates ‘skinniest kid at fat camp’

By Wayne Hoffman, IFF’s former President
November 1, 2019
If American public schools are ever going to improve, education officials need to be honest about where students are succeeding and where they aren’t. That’s mainly unsolicited advice for Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra, who found mostly joy and silver linings in the newest scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). […]
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Diversity & discernment: lessons from the gridiron

By Idaho Freedom Foundation staff
October 23, 2019
By Dr. John M. Livingston | Medical Policy Adviser I grew up in Ohio in the 1960s. In Ohio and western Pennsylvania, football was, and remains today, a religion. I was lucky enough in the late ‘60s and early ‘70’s to play for two state championship high school football teams and one NCAA Division III […]
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