Voices

Educators, community members and students share their opinions about Idaho education.

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What were the best and worst moments of the school year?

Learn more about your child’s educational experience by asking them to evaluate their year.

Invest in preschool instead of prisons

What if we set more students up for success in school, work and life before we waste their talent and potential? Now that’s really doing something.

Guided Pathways: Smoothing Idaho’s education pipeline

The Guided Pathways Committee will continue to develop and refine strategies for improving our system this summer.

Thank you, middle school ‘careers class’ teachers

I loved this class for my daughter. All students need to learn how to land a job.

Should educators influence student elections?

They need to be part of the process, but shouldn’t the students ultimately decide who wins?

An investment today will bring the doctors to stay

Idaho reserves 40 seats in the University of Washington School of Medicine for its residents. This program is not enough to address our declining availability of doctors.

What does graduation mean to you?

I love celebrating educational milestones.

Universal access to education is possible in this online age

Open Educational Resources is not only vital, but is at the forefront of the movement toward making college accessible for all learners.

We can’t let Idaho remain a ‘scroll-down’ state

Idaho is once again at the bottom of a national ranking because the party in charge is failing to invest in its people.