Idahoans for Choice in Education is an Idaho Political Action Committee dedicated to improving education in Idaho. Our mission is to give parents an independent voice in education by supporting their right to choose the best education for their children. Parental choice is the key to improving Idaho's education system. Parents must be able to choose among public, public charter, private and home schools.
LEGISLATIVE BRIEFS
NEW!! More School Choice a Solution to Budget Problems Gale Pooley, Ph. D. Education Excellence Idaho - Volume IV, Issue II complete article
NEW!! Do No Harm EDUCATION INC. VS. CHARTER SCHOOLS - Volume IV, Issue I complete article
NEW!! Business As Usual, Not Good Enough! - Volume IV Issue III complete article
NEWS ARTICLES
NEW!! Policy Makers Lack Vision Recently Idaho Launched its Idaho Education Network (IEN). This effort is a great start but does not go far enough to address the potential of technology to change our k-12 education system. complete article
NEW!! Schooling: Any Place, Any Time! When technology was brought into the classroom many years ago, everything changed, and schooling improved dramatically. This “new” technology allowed information to be presented all at once, freeing up teachers to spend more time educating and less time replicating basic data. Because an innovation like this was impossible to ignore, soon every classroom was utilizing this technology. This technology was put into classrooms around 1801. It was the blackboard. complete article
NEW!! Charter Schools Don’t Pick and Choose The anti-charter school folks have always made the charge that the reason charter school students typically outperform their traditional school counterparts is due to the erroneous assumption that charter schools cherry-pick the best students. complete article
DID YOU KNOW?
- That choice of schools is extremely important to most Idahoans
- That only 12% of Idahoans say that a regular public school is the top choice for their child’s school
- That 67% of Idahoans are in favor of charter schools and 60% are in favor of education vouchers
- That 47% of Idahoans believe their schools to be only fair or poor
- That 2/3 of Idaho voters believe that school funding is about right or too high
- That 63% of Idahoans believe that teacher salaries are about right or too high
- That 59% of Idahoans favor some form of tax credits for education purposes
- That 29% of Idaho voter are more likely to vote for a candidate for governor or state senator or state representative if they support education tax credits and for 35% it would make no difference
Note This information is from a scientific poll conducted in Idaho in 2008 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
