Rod Gramer

Idaho’s legislators should not be fooled. If the tax credit passes, the voucher lobbyists will be back to expand it and they will continue pressuring lawmakers to pass an education savings account.

Idaho can’t afford to financially support two new school systems.

Collaboration and learning are other keys. Besides data sharing, teachers meet in groups and discuss ideas about how to improve each student’s proficiency.

For the sake of Idaho’s future, we can only hope that “truth” starts lacing up its boots fast.

When the good citizens of Coeur d’Alene finally decide to send Brent Regan and his acolytes packing, then, and only then, can they start rebuilding their town into the beautiful, welcoming, and loving community that once was the jewel of North Idaho.

The Legislature is poised to make one of the most consequential decisions in our state’s 133-year history.

He was a man of many talents, including a master of the English language. He used words as a newspaper columnist sparingly, but with the skill of a surgeon to get to the art of a matter.

The decision facing lawmakers is whether to use taxpayers’ dollars to finance private and religious schools. My answer to that is an emphatic no.

Read Mary Mary Daly’s story and why the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco wants to help Idaho teens get to college.

As an organization that represents more than 250 business leaders across our state, Idaho Business for Education believes that public education is essential for Idaho’s economic prosperity and quality of life.