Guns-in-schools bills wonât move this legislative session
Kevin Richert, IdahoEdNews.org
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During a March 2020 hearing, Senate State Affairs Committee chairwoman Patti Anne Lodge eyes a line of activists against gun violence ready to testify against a guns-in-schools bill. | Sami Edge, Idaho EdNews
BOISE Two competing guns-in-schools bills will not get a hearing in the waning days of the 2021 legislative session.
âThis sessionâs over,â Senate State Affairs Committee Chair Patti Anne Lodge, R-Caldwell, told Idaho Education News. âI am not having another committee hearing.â
In an interview Friday â one day after a shooting at Rigby Middle School, which left two students and a school custodian injured â Lodge emphasized the need to train teachers and school staff so they know how to respond to a crisis. And on Thursday, Rigbyâs training worked, Lodge said; a teacher was able to disarm and detain the suspect, fem
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Idaho House lawmakers contentiously debated an appropriations bill funding the state’s higher education institutions Wednesday. At the unique request of the sponsor, legislators voted down the spending bill, so it could be returned to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee.
The turmoil is centered around a myriad of diversity and social justice educational or other programs on state campuses. Rep. Brent Crane (R-Nampa) read an email he received from a music student at Boise State, who said they had been shunned and persecuted by peers and teachers alike for expressing conservative political viewpoints.
Multiple lawmakers condemned the use of public funding for state university programs they said were indoctrinating students with critical race theory or social justice ideas. Rep. Bruce Skaug (R-Nampa) said his daughter quit classes at Boise State after he said she was forced to “walk the tunnel of shame” because someone said her naturally curly hair was cultural approp
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