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Indoctrination task force took aim at alleged indoctrination in K-12 schools

The task force reignited quarrels with major education policy players in a meeting marked by a rocky start, a tense middle and a slow end.

Follow our live blog of McGeachin’s task force

We’ll record the meeting’s major talking points — as they happen — and add context and public reaction.

Analysis: The college entrance exam is falling out of favor

Idaho’s colleges and universities are no longer required to look at entrance exam scores. Does it make sense to require all high school students take these exams, at a taxpayer expense of $1 million a year?

Students came from the across the globe — and stayed in Caldwell

International student enrollment fell precipitously during the pandemic. But the College of Idaho grew its international student community, by supporting students who had to stay in school and couldn’t go home.

McGeachin-Trump summit, four-hour agenda set table for indoctrination task force meeting

The task force is set to hear presentations on education players and policy from an intern in McGeachin’s office, a hardline conservative candidate for State Superintendent and fellow task force members.

Even as the pandemic recedes, students might not return to campus

Is Idaho’s college enrollment decline a blip, caused by the coronavirus, or a sign of a bigger trend? Many of the early numbers for 2021-22 are ominous.

The student experience: adjusting to classes and campus life in a pandemic

For first-year students and for returning college students, the coronavirus was a constant specter, looming over an uncertain school year.

Eighteen months, 5,000 students: Idaho colleges and universities face a deep enrollment decline

Not unlike the scientists and infectious disease experts who have tried to unlock the mysteries of the coronavirus, college and university officials have been trying to determine the pandemic’s effects on their institutions. Here’s what we know about 2020-21.

Why they showed up: Three students tell their stories

For students who returned to campus for the 2020-21 school year, showing up was a matter of setting aside concerns about the coronavirus, or accepting required protocols.