ELECTIONS 2024
Incumbent education leaders fared well in GOP contests — with one exception.
House Education’s anti-voucher wall may be coming down, while the Senate has lost its most powerful school choice proponent.
Measures pass in Salmon, Mountain View, and West Ada; McCall’s bond and West Bonner’s levy fail.
We asked candidates about their most important education priorities and where they stand on controversial education issues dividing the Legislature.
A complicated — and competing — network of outside groups has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into Tuesday’s legislative primaries. Let’s try to untangle the spider web.
Tuesday’s GOP primary represents yet another showdown between the Republicans’ mainstream and hardline factions. But the rift along the GOP’s right flank can’t be dismissed, either.
Several of the donations went to lawmakers who have sided with the U of I in its bid to buy the University of Phoenix.
It’s not unusual for a governor to endorse primary races, but Little hasn’t done it regularly in his two terms.
Right 2 Learn has received $90,000 from the Idaho Education Association’s political arm. The PAC has spent close to $70,000 in an attempt to oust state Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, the co-chair of the Legislature’s budget committee.
Rep. Lori McCann of Lewiston is defending her four-year record — and, to an extent, her committee’s record — in a three-person GOP primary.