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Few candidates for House and Senate seats in Idaho have large amounts of campaign dollars, but incumbents have an advantage from prior races.
The House Education Committee killed a bill to allow families to spend state funds on private school tuition and fees.
The measure forbids Idaho school districts from rerunning a bond election for 11 months, if failing to reach the 66.67% supermajority
Senate Education Committee kills parent payout proposal Sami Edge, IdahoEdNews.org Updated at Share This EastIdahoNews.com file photo BOISE (IdahoEdNews.org) — The Senate Education Committee killed a bill that would have given money to parents who withdrew children from school districts that did not offer full-time face-to-face learning. Even before Monday’s divided Senate vote, Rep. Codi Galloway’s proposal has been contentious. Galloway, R-Boise, argues the bill is intended to encourage districts to reopen full-time after COVID-19 forced many into remote or hybrid learning, and to ...
The new bill would require the state to pay parents who choose to pull their kids out of public school because the school is not providing in-person instruction