“Political hostility to public education in the Republican-dominated Idaho Legislature is causing some businesses to doubt the wisdom of moving to or expanding in a state that…”
“ranks at or near the bottom in what it spends on K-12 students and has one of the nation’s worst graduation rates.”
“For preschoolers, lawmakers earlier this year rejected a $6 million early childhood learning federal grant from the Trump administration. One Republican lawmaker said he opposed anything making it easier for mothers to work outside the home.”
“Our public schools are grotesque, and adding more money is not going to solve the problem,” the group’s president, Wayne Hoffman, said during a speech in northern Idaho earlier this month. “The government should not be in the education business. They’re brainwashing our kids.”
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