School Vouchers

The Idaho Senate took its turn to start killing budgets on Monday. This time, the state tax commission was in the crosshairs.

Next year, Idaho parents will be eligible to earn tax credits to subsidize their children’s private school tuition.

State senators have approved a bill to spend $50 million to subsidize private school tuition after debating for more than two hours Wednesday.

State senators will get a chance to vote on a $50 million private school tuition subsidy bill in the near future.

Idaho House lawmakers have passed a $50 million private school tuition subsidy bill after hours of debate Friday afternoon.

House lawmakers will get a chance to debate whether taxpayer money should subsidize private school tuition.

House Republican leaders say a proposed private school tuition subsidy that cleared a Senate committee this week could be dead on arrival should it make it to their side of the capitol.

Idaho’s largest teachers’ union, as well as associations representing school administrators and elected school boards, joined to oppose subsidizing private school tuition with tax dollars Monday.

An effort to reimburse parents who send their kids to private schools through a tax credit is dead for now.

Idaho lawmakers have tried over the past several years to put some kind of program in place that would let parents choose where their kids go to school using everything from vouchers to education savings accounts, but none of those past proposals have become law.