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BOISE, Idaho (AP) A decision by Idaho lawmakers to reject a $6 million federal grant to improve early childhood education and comments from one lawmaker who said mothers belong at home raised the ire of women across the state.
Several dozen gathered Wednesday afternoon at the Idaho Statehouse holding signs with slogans like Who let the moms out? to demand that the lawmakers bring back and pass the childhood learning bill.
The grant was awarded to the state by former President Donald Trumps administration to support the development of Idahos early childhood care and education system for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. The state education department would have administered it with the help of the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children, distributing the money to child care programs and other organizations to be used for things like library programs, kindergarten readiness and support for homeschooling families.
But during Tuesdays debate on the House floor, opponents claimed it would be used to promote social justice or a liberal agenda in the very conservative state.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-early-childhood-education-education-boise-bills-581517bc89b86666887396ae8ecce4ce
We don't need any of that fancy pants learning
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,630 posts)apparently matches that of their number one export crop.
edhopper
(33,579 posts)will ever wake up?
I am not hopeful.
Irish_Dem
(47,057 posts)yonder
(9,666 posts)but I'll gladly add them to the list. This state is a great place to live and recreate but damn, this time every year the legislature pulls more than a few crazy-ass stunts like this. I'll be happy in another month or so when they adjourn till next January and their process of foolishness starts all over again.