Idaho Pulse Podcasts

School Choice

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June 18, 2026

Idaho School Choice, Rural Health Grants & DEI Fights

This episode runs through the Idaho fights driving the cycle: stalled teacher contracts and the state’s education listening sessions, the first year of school choice and the education tax credit, and school-district waste from a land deal at nearly twice market value to administrator raises outpacing teachers’. It then turns to a billion-dollar rural health grant whose first dollars went to administration, taxpayer funding...

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January 27, 2026

Idaho Tax Cuts vs. Spending: School Choice Battle

Bob Neugebauer and Ron Nate dissect the governor’s refusal to conform to Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” tax cuts, rejecting hundreds of millions in overtime and tip income exemptions to patch spending-created budget holes. Nate reveals Democrats’ coordinated messaging blaming tax cuts for budget problems while conservatives fail to counter that spending increased 60% over six years. The Idaho Supreme Court school choice case exposes...