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Statehouse roundup, 2.2.23: School choice debate continues; Yamamoto pushes facilities issue

…enrollment and open enrollment, Advanced Opportunities and Empowering Parents further expand the landscape. At least 57,420 students are attending public schools of choice in 2022-23: 29,741 students across 70 public…

Governor touts family grants as solution for school choice

…program that would divert funds from public schools, but she’s considering the idea of expanding Empowering Parents to offer families more options. But as Idaho leaders tout Empowering Parents as…

Running the numbers from Education Week

…remember as lawmakers debate continuing Empowering Parents, a program that provides grants for parents to cover education expenses, such as internet access or computers. 30. The number of Idaho counties…

Day 22: School choice rally

…away from public schools for use at private schools. But she has maintained strong vocal support for other school choice options, including expanding the Empowering Parents grants. Following the rally,…

Analysis: School choice is a quagmire for Critchfield, and a proxy fight for Idaho’s GOP

…the publicly-funded Empowering Parents grants program to support scholarships for private schools. Confused yet? Confused still? Let’s try to keep it simple. Strip away all the semantics and the terminology…

Statehouse roundup, 1.17.23: Budget chief clarifies Little’s scholarship proposal

…ideas in the works, Adams said. The scholarships could be distributed like the Empowering Parents grants, where every recipient would get $8,500 loaded into an account to be redeemed at…

Here’s why education choice opponents can’t hide behind Idaho’s Constitution

…no other hands could it be safer.” But apart from the new and limited “Empowering Parents Program,” Idaho currently facilitates such supervision solely within the restrictive confines of the state-created…

Statehouse roundup, 1.16.23: Critchfield, Liebich spell out education priorities for session

…is to show families the options Idaho already provides, and open up other avenues, like the popular Empowering Parents grant program. Former superintendent’s candidate joins Freedom Foundation While Critchfield was…

Senators present education savings account draft legislation at public town hall

…Ms. Miller referenced,” Critchfield said. “We have a state micro grant, Empowering Parents, that’s designed to support choices and supplement individual student/family needs…There’s open enrollment within schools for most of…

This week’s podcasts: 1.13.23

…an $80 million scholarship program, and make the Empowering Parents grant program permanent, at a cost of $30 million a year. Now what happens? Kevin Richert analyzes the speech, soundbite…