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Idaho Ranked 30th Among States in Math Recovery and 38th in Reading Between 2019 and 2024.
Students in Idaho remain half a grade level behind 2019 levels in math and over 60% of a grade level behind in reading.
Both reading and math are concerns in Idaho, with 91 percent of students in districts with average math achievement below 2019 levels and 96 percent of student in districts with average reading achievement below 2019 levels.
In its third year of reporting on the pace of academic recovery measures in districts nationwide The Education Recovery Scorecard
(a collaboration between The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University) is issuing its annual report of district-level student growth in math and reading. The federal pandemic relief dollars may be gone, but the pandemic's impact lingers in many Idaho schools. One of the project leaders, Professor Tom Kane from Harvard, said:
"Unless state and local leaders step up now, the achievement losses will be the longest lasting—and most inequitable— legacy of the pandemic." -Sam Stockwell (Harvard University February 11, 2025)
Liberty in Children's Education
HB 516a (FREEDOM FROM UNIONS) PASSED!
"As a final note, please look at the voting, above, that took place this session on HB516a, the bill that would make it illegal for schools to...
'use or authorize the use of taxpayer
funds to support teachers' unions'.
Please note that my opponent, Marco Erickson, along with many Democrats, voted "Nay" against the stranglehold unions hold over the Department of Education in Idaho and throughout the country.
I can only thank Representative Judy Boyle and Senator Brian Lenney, the Bill's sponsors, for standing up to this very powerful LEFT-WING political crusade.