House Minority Leader Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, and House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, field questions during an Idaho Press Club luncheon Tuesday. (Sami Edge/Idaho Education News)
The House’s hardline conservatives have been waiting for their run at the higher education budget, and on Monday, they helped kill it.
While Monday’s vote was months in the making, it also wasn’t that straightforward. Hot-button social issues helped doom the higher ed budget bill, but that’s only part of the story. There’s a deeper, nuanced debate about how to fund Idaho’s colleges and universities this year. And for next year, and beyond, some dark economic clouds sit squarely within the line of sight.
https://www.idahoednews.org/news/analysis-the-darkening-cloud-overshadowing-idahos-higher-ed-budget-debate/
