1+ week, 6+ day ago   (758+ words) Idaho’s colleges and universities hope to reverse a big budget cut from last year. The schools would use much of the money to bolster high-demand academic fields or cover the cost of growth. The budget request centers on a complicated…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (447+ words) What doesn’t get said is what that number looks like from inside a classroom. These numbers are attached to faces. In Idaho, there are 33,000 of them. They are Idaho’s disabled children. They are real people and citizens of this state....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (429+ words) (BOISE) – Last year when I was pressed to identify cuts to our public schools, I declined. I knew schools couldn’t sustain mid-year cuts, let alone ongoing reductions. When I submit a K-12 public school budget, it comes after months of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (872+ words) We regularly file public records requests, ask tough questions and follow the paper trail. Under Watch documents the challenges we encounter along the way — including unanswered requests, missing documents and denied or redacted records that deserve public scrutiny. Emma Epperly…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1607+ words) Three Idaho charter schools provide vastly different paths to getting students down the graduation line. Students at Valor Classical Academy follow a set of six virtues, including self-government and perseverance. A student wants to be a mom when she grows…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (673+ words) Boise State University is denying wrongdoing in a public records dispute with a conservative lobbying group. Attorneys for Boise State say the university “acted in good faith” in responding to the Idaho Family Policy Center — even though the group received…...