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‘Nobody thinks it’s happening’: Parents decry racism – and denial – in Boise-area schools

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of racial incidents and quotations of racial slurs. Anna Marie Young has kept a record of every time her children, who are biracial, faced racist comments or bullying in their West Ada district schools since 2022. There was the time classmates called her 13-year-old son an “overgrown monkey,” and the time a student called her daughter a “thing” ...
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‘To fight the leftists’ lies’: Conservative PragerU resources available to Idaho schools

PragerU, a conservative nonprofit that releases short videos on a variety of topics, will now have hundreds of its resources available to Idaho schools. The nonprofit — the namesake of right-wing commentator and political analyst Dennis Prager — has been working to get its materials into schools for years. PragerU’s website asks readers to sign a petition to help with their mission, decrying ...
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Health care shortage ‘has plagued Idaho for years.’ Here’s what U of I is doing about it

Idaho has limited options for medical education. But a new school at the University of Idaho in Moscow aims to change that. The U of I plans to launch its first health care-related graduate programs in fall 2025 under a new school for medical professions. The School of Health and Medical Professions will be just the second medical school in the state, joining the Idaho College of Osteopathic ...
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Then and Now: West Valley High School

Though the city of Spokane grew rapidly from its founding in the 1870s, the Spokane Valley area was mostly rural with unincorporated settlements at the turn of the 20th century. As the rural areas expanded, small school districts were formed to build schools that focused on lower grade levels. The first two districts were Trent and Vera, quickly followed by Orchard Park and Otis Orchards. Before the 1910, none of them went beyond the eighth grade.
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