#Idaho Banned #Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.
Since the #SupremeCourt overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum #Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.
@ProPublica has an in-depth look at a horrifying situation, in Idaho where Schools have been denied funding for repairs for almost 30 years. The schools are literally falling apart. Classes are being held in stairwells and closets, amid frequent power outages, and no one is doing anything.
"One by one, doctors who handle high-risk pregnancies are disappearing from Idaho — part of a wave of obstetricians fleeing restrictive abortion laws and a hostile state legislature...
Politico— #Idaho Democrats are running candidates in every state legislative district for the first time in at least 30 years, seeing opportunity in an extreme GOP agenda.
NEW: #Idaho Supreme Court upholds the state's ban on using student IDs to vote, dismissing a lawsuit alleging that the rule violates young voters’ right to equal protection and right to vote under the Idaho Constitution.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked an #Idaho law requiring public school students to use the restroom corresponding to their assigned sex at birth, in a lawsuit brought by the family of a #transgender middle school student. #LGBTQ#legal
This Influential #Conservative Group Is Making it Harder for #Idaho Districts to Fix Their Schools
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has gone beyond the #education culture wars by targeting local bond and levy #elections, which districts rely on heavily to build and repair #schools.
Watch Duty kept me super well-informed about #wildfires in California last year. Now it's expanding its coverage — not just to Oregon as I first heard, but throughout the western US.
My "Dawn of a Brand New Day" will be shown after a segment on CBS News Sunday Morning today (September 3, 2023) after a segment about #Idaho trying to move its state boundary. This is the thrid time this particular artwork will be shown on the show.
#Idaho Hasn’t Assessed #School Buildings for 30 Years. Students and Educators Helped Us Do It Ourselves.
To understand the problems plaguing underfunded #schools in Idaho, we surveyed 115 superintendents, toured 39 buildings and collected accounts from hundreds of #students, parents and #teachers.
It's strutting time again! Too bad #Idaho politicians favor ranching and development on our public lands over the imperiled Greater Sage-Grouse. #birds#birding
#Idaho Governor Proposes $2 Billion in Funding for #School Buildings Over Next 10 Years
Gov. Brad Little cited reporting by the Idaho Statesman and ProPublica as he laid out his plan for a massive infrastructure investment in the state’s public schools during Monday’s State of the State address.