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Apr 16, 20232 min read
Idaho legislators should want to save pregnant women, not remove the tools to help
Loren Colson - April 16, 2023 As a physician in Idaho, watching the 2023 legislative session was perplexing. Most health care-related...
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ICAP
Mar 1, 20233 min read
Idaho legislators are weaponizing government against transgender kids and their doctors
Jim Jones - FEBRUARY 23, 2023 Idaho’s legislative culture warriors are at it again, weaponizing the government against families with...
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ICAP
Mar 1, 20232 min read
Idaho’s House Bill 71 would make it harder for parents to give children the best chance to thrive
Neil Ragan Jessie Duvall - FEBRUARY 28, 2023 Being a parent is hard. Everyone can agree on that. Every day we, as health care providers,...
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ICAP
Mar 1, 20233 min read
After longwinded debate, Senate kills controversial school choice bill
Sadie Dittenber - 02/27/2023 A divisive education savings account (ESA) bill died in the Senate Monday afternoon — in a 12-23 vote that...
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ICAP
Mar 1, 20237 min read
Statehouse roundup, 2.28.23: Future ESA legislation prefaced in House committee
Kevin Richert and Sadie Dittenber - 02/28/2023 House Education Committee members heard presentations on three draft bills Tuesday...
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ICAP
Feb 23, 20233 min read
Legislators need to disclose any self-interest in “school choice” bill
Tom Arkoosh - 02/20/2023 The Idaho Legislature is preparing to vote on legislation that would require Idaho taxpayers to foot the bill...
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ICAP
Feb 21, 20231 min read
Future Costs of Idaho SB1038’s Universal Education Savings Accounts Projected to Rise Sharply
ALEJANDRA CERNA RIOS - FEBRUARY 20, 2023 Senate Bill 1038, which is before the Idaho Senate, would create a universal private education...
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ICAP
Feb 16, 20234 min read
Statehouse roundup, 2/15/23: After lengthy testimony, divisive ESA bill heads to Senate floor
Sadie Dittenber - 02/15/2023 The Senate Education Committee sent a $45 million education savings accounts bill to the Senate floor...
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ICAP
Feb 13, 20233 min read
Idaho lawmakers seem obsessed with picking on trans kids. Leave the kids aloneRead more at: https:
By the Idaho Statesman Editorial Board - February 12, 2023 For yet another year, a significant portion of the GOP in the Idaho...
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ICAP
Feb 9, 20233 min read
Report: Deaths among pregnant women in Idaho more than doubled in 2020
Kelcie Moseley -Morris - December 12, 2022 Idaho women who died from pregnancy-related problems doubled between 2019 and 2020, according...
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ICAP
Feb 9, 20234 min read
Committee passes bill to ban most gender-affirming care for minors
Laura Guido - February 8, 2023 BOISE — After two hours of emotional and at-times contradictory testimony, the House Judiciary Committee...
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ICAP
Feb 9, 20234 min read
OPINION: After two decades of studying voucher programs, I’m now firmly opposed to them
Joshua Cowen - July 20, 2022 n recent years, nearly half of all states have created publicly funded private K-12 tuition plans,...
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ICAP
Feb 9, 20233 min read
Statehouse roundup, 2.2.23: School choice debate continues; Yamamoto pushes facilities issue
Kevin Richert and Sadie Dittenber - 02/02/2023 Approximately 17% of students — excluding students at private schools or homeschools or...
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ICAP
Feb 9, 202312 min read
Records show powerful, wealthy funders outside Idaho back school choice campaign
Kelcie Moseley-Morris - 02/03/2023 The national special interests groups who have poured millions of dollars into efforts to make...
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ICAP
Feb 9, 20234 min read
Idaho panel approves a bill that would make medical care for trans youth a felony
Audrey Dutton - February 7, 2023 Republican lawmakers in an Idaho House committee voted Tuesday to restrict the rights of parents to...
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ICAP
Jan 30, 20237 min read
Idaho lawmaker's children's books on AR-15s and feminism have some raising a red flag
Sydney Kidd - January 30, 2023 In bookstores and online, there are myriad children’s books with a variety of different purposes. Some are...
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ICAP
Jan 30, 20234 min read
Idaho legislator changes testimony ban to allow people under 18 to testify with parental permission
CLARK CORBIN - JANUARY 27, 2023 With about 30 young people in the audience looking on, House Judiciary, Rules and Administration...
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ICAP
Jan 30, 20234 min read
Idaho’s new K-12 schools superintendent asks for $2.5B public school budget
CLARK CORBIN - JANUARY 26, 2023 Wednesday was Debbie Critchfield’s 23rd day on the job as Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction. She...
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ICAP
Jan 30, 20233 min read
Idaho will spend $78M more if Medicaid expansion ends, state official tells Legislature
AUDREY DUTTON - JANUARY 23, 2023 If voters had not approved the expansion of Idaho Medicaid to low-income adults, Idahoans would have...
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ICAP
Jan 30, 20233 min read
School choice advocates gather at the Idaho State Capitol
ERIN BANKS RUSBY - Jan 24, 2023 BOISE — Last year, Marilyn Villagomez thought she would drop out of school. “At my previous school, I...
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