Over the past 30 years, I’ve worked in nearly every corner of Idaho’s education system—teaching in classrooms, leading Catholic and public schools, and serving as a superintendent through times of growth, hardship, and everything in between. Schools anchor our communities, especially in places like Kimberly where our school district is the city’s largest employer.

Right now, I’m more worried than ever about what’s ahead.

Earlier this year, the legislature passed a law, despite record-breaking calls urging the governor to veto it, that uses $50 million in taxpayer dollars to subsidize private school tuition with little to no accountability for how those funds are used.

There’s a projected state budget deficit of $79 million. Gov. Little has ordered state agencies to cut 3% from budgets t

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