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Big surprise: spend more money on education and get lower results. That negative correlation should mean something to educated people.  Idaho has invested millions in improving math instruction in schools since 2008, Idaho EdNews reports, but math scores haven’t improved – they’ve actually gone down. EdNews reporter Clark Corbin analyzed math scores, and found that […]

Idaho has invested millions in improving math instruction in schools since 2008, Idaho EdNews reports, but math scores haven’t improved – they’ve actually gone down. EdNews reporter Clark Corbin analyzed math scores, and found that they’ve been stagnant or dropping across the board. For example, the percentage of 8th-graders scoring at or above grade-level benchmarks

A new statewide school safety and security initiative has launched, Idaho EdNews reports, pursuant to legislation that passed this year and was sponsored by Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls. The new Idaho Office of School Safety and Security is housed within the Idaho Division of Building Safety. Its manager, Brian Armes, a former Idaho teacher

Garfield County authorities in Pomeroy have received the criminal investigation regarding the alleged start of the massive Snake River Fire. Whitman County Sheriff Brett Myers sent his investigation to the Garfield County Sheriff late last week. The blaze allegedly started August 2nd in Garfield County just across the Snake River from Granite Point in Whitman

An Obama administration official got into a fistfight with a Native American college student over a Washington Redskins shirt the student was wearing at a Pow Wow in Washington, D.C. Barrett Dahl says William Mendoza, executive director of the White House Initiative of American Indian and Alaska Native Education, approached him, called him stupid and uneducated for

TSA agents at Phoenix’ Sky Harbor International Airport detained nine-year old Chille Bergstrom and his family for more than an hour on Saturday, causing them to miss their flight, because they suspected the kid was hiding a bomb in his chest. He wasn’t, of course. Chille was born with a rare heart condition that requires

The Times is reporting that Trump has begun prep work for the first general election debate. One of his principle advisors: Former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, who helped George Bush debate Michael Dukakis in 1988.

Donald Trump promised to be “fair, but firm” on immigration Monday, after previous pledges to forcibly deport 11 million immigrants living in the United States. When asked if his plan still included mandatory deportation, his new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said the plan was “to be determined.” The Republican nominee is now delaying an immigration speech previously set for later

Lies, lies, and more lies.  Hillary Clinton reportedly told the F.B.I. former Secretary of State Colin Powell recommended she use a private email server, according to the New York Times. On Saturday, Colin Powell denied he had anything to do with the matter.  He suggested “her people have been trying to pin it on me” to deflect criticism.

A Federal District Court judge ordered the State Department to expedite its review of nearly 15,000 new emails uncovered by the F.B.I.’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s personal email account. While most of the original 55,000 pages of work-related emails have already been released, the several thousand new emails come from the accounts of people Clinton was in communication with

A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration’s order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity. In a temporary injunction signed Sunday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that the federal education law known as Title IX “is not ambiguous”

Current law requires law enforcement candidates to be clean of marijuana for at least three years.  Latah County Sheriff Wayne Rausch told county elected officials and department heads Monday the Idaho Peace Officer Standards and Training Council will push the state Legislature to make it easier to hire deputies who may have used marijuana in

With a week and a half left until Washington State University’s first football game, the question of how much booze will be available at Martin Stadium is still unanswered. Officials, however, hope to get the nay or OK today from the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board on whether or not the university can expand

A series of wildfires burning in the Spokane region have destroyed at least 16 homes and continued to grow on Monday. The fires started Sunday afternoon amid high winds and temperatures in the 90s. One fire was near Davenport in Lincoln County, just west of Spokane. It had scorched more than nine square miles by

Oregon has processed $25.5 million in tax payments from recreational marijuana from January through the end of July.  The state’s Department of Revenue says medical marijuana dispensaries were required to file their second-quarter returns for recreational marijuana by Aug. 1.  Oregonians legalized recreational marijuana in late 2014.  But it can only be sold by medical

“Frigid.” “Exceptionally cold.” “Return of the Ice Cold Winter.” Those are the words used to describe this coming winter. The Almanac predicts a colder-than-normal winter for two-thirds of the nation. “Exceptionally cold conditions” are expected in the Northern Plains, Great Lakes, Midwest, Ohio Valley, Middle Atlantic, Northeast, and New England states. The West could see

Telling you about this since the MSM only reports hot weather.  There were record cold highs set east of the Divide on 19 Aug 2016.