Legislature Still Playing Games with Education Budgets As the interminable 2021 legislative session passed the 100 day mark this week, the legislature continued its antics around education budgets and “straw man” arguments around the “indoctrination” of students. Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin is forming a task force to “investigate” the issue. And the House approved…

IEA Hotline—April 2, 2021 Legislature Back from Recess Next Week; Budget and Early Childhood Bills Still in Flux Following a recess necessitated by COVID-19 spread among its members, the Idaho legislature will gavel back in this Tuesday, April 6. Approving budgets for public education is a constitutional mandate, while the legislature also seems to have…