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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…

Budget-writers get a first look at Little’s $410 million education spending plan

…raises or building maintenance. Empowering Parents grants: $30 million. This would make permanent a grant program currently bankrolled by federal coronavirus aid. The state is now distributing a $50 million…

Analysis: Little deflects the looming debate over school choice

…training programs. The cost: $80 million. Little urged lawmakers to continue his early literacy program, at $72 million a year. And Little wants to make the popular Empowering Parents grant…

Little pledges continued support for education in State of the State address

…to make permanent the Empowering Parents grant program — a state initiative currently supported by COVID-19 relief funds. The program, originally intended to alleviate pandemic learning loss, provides grants of…

Analysis: The ‘v-word’ that dominates Idaho’s school choice debate

…of the term “vouchers.” “Vouchers are about the government giving money to private schools. Whereas ESAs are about empowering parents and trusting them to make the right educational decisions for…