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SCHOOL DISTRICTS ASK VOTERS TO BOOST BUDGETS

  • Natalie Podgorski reports school districts across southern Idaho are asking voters to help boost their budgets. School levy elections are Tuesday and some districts say

LUNA'S STUDENTS COME FIRST LAWS HEAD FOR BALLOT SHOWDOWN

  • Kristin Rodine reports the slogans are snappy, simple and grouped in threes. “Electorate demands it. Economy requires it. Students deserve it.” “Bad for children.

SCHOOL DISTRICTS PROPOSE LEVIES

  • Nick Groff reports a second attempt at a Nampa School District supplemental levy will go to vote Tuesday. The original $3.58 million per year,

FOES OF REFORMS SAY SCHOOL LAPTOPS 'UNFUNDED'

  • AP reports the campaign working to overturn Idaho’s education reforms has launched a new radio advertisement calling a laptop program required under the plan

KUSTRA OPTIMISTIC IN FACE OF STATE BUDGET CUTS

  • Samantha Wright reports Boise State President Bob Kustra says times are changing for colleges and universities, including his own.  In his tenth annual State

PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX REPEAL WILL BE AN ISSUE FOR 2013 LEGISLATURE

  • Mitch Coffman reports the business personal property tax has been a hot button item for the last couple of legislative sessions with some lawmakers

NO INCREASE IN ENDOWMENT FUNDS FOR IDAHO’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS NEXT YEAR…

  • Betsy Russell reports Idaho’s state Land Board has voted unanimously to approve a recommendation from the state’s Endowment Fund Investment Board for no increase in

CRAPO, SIMPSON TO HOST PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON DEBT MONDAY IN BOISE

  • Betsy Russell reports:  Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo and Congressman Mike Simpson are inviting the public to a discussion of the “fiscal cliff” and financial

NAMPA SCHOOLS DUG A $2.8 MILLION HOLE. ARE STATE BUDGET CUTS TO BLAME?

  • Molly Messick reports:  The Nampa School District has discovered a budget problem. Last school year, due to an accounting error, it spent $2.8 million

'FIX THE DEBT' CAMPAIGN COMES TO IDAHO

  • Maya MacGuineas guest opinion:  With the election season moving into higher gear and a “fiscal cliff” on the economic horizon, the American public will be

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