Voices

Committee co-chairs hire lawyers, at a budget-blowing price, after our very competent Attorney General’s Office had already studied case law and offered advice.

My hope is that our task force efforts do not become just another failed initiative but can transcend the politics of the moment.

Thinking, and learning to think, were time consuming, sometimes boring and often downright unpleasant, especially the learning-to-think part. We were expected to have strong bodies and even stronger minds.

The U.S. Department of Education’s FedLoan Servicing needs to be held accountable for the mistreatment of the TEACH Grant program and the injustice to our nation’s educators.

The primary cause for funding inequity in Idaho is that charter schools lack access to local tax dollars. Despite the money challenges, charters in Idaho are adding students and performing well.

I see no reason why the state shouldn’t step up and add emotional and verbal abuse to the legal definitions of abuse to aid programs and guidelines that define Idaho’s Child Protective Services.

I am deeply concerned that the Value Added Model will cause an exodus of special educators leaving our most vulnerable students behind.

If the levy is voted down, the district will “find a way” because it has to. But what about the magic? In Kuna schools, the magic is already happening. We’re working to pass the levy because we want the magic to keep happening, for our kids and for our community.