The Draft Initiative is NOT against school funding. It is intended to oppose the levy as the way to fund schools in the State of Idaho. Levies are unreasonable, unreliable and most importantly unconstitutional. The goal of the Initiative is to REPLACE it with permanent stable funding from the State of Idaho.
The Idaho Constitution Section 1, article IX provides that: “The stability of a republican form of government depending mainly upon the intelligence of the people, it shall be the duty of the legislature of Idaho, to establish and maintain a general, uniform and thorough system of public, free common schools.”
DRAFT INITIATIVE PETITION (2-28-2024) To the Honorable Phil McGrane, Secretary of State of the State of Idaho: We, the undersigned citizens and qualified electors of
Written by Citizen Joshua Palken – in Support of Citizen’s Initiative to Abolish Local Funding of Public Schools The“Abolish Levies and Bonds Measure” Preface Dear
It would be nice to end the annual civil war wouldn’t it? “…the Mountain View School District 244 board of trustees voted unanimously to hold
Initiative Abolishing the School Levy will need School District support Levies are a local civil war in every school district year after year, state wide.
A few questions on the process were raised by the MVSD Board and Superintendent. Of course there are many important questions – about the process,
The State (and School Districts) have a completely separate process and source of funding for capital improvements which is authorized by Article 8 of the
Yes, but only if they actually SERVE the students. I do not know if this is true or not. But a LOT of people think
Prepared by Joshua Palken (3-28-2024) Article 9 Section 1 of the Idaho Constitution recites: “The stability of a republican form of government depend(s) mainly upon
Short update on charter school levies that I found after I wrote my charter school memo… And that is: The restriction in Idaho – no
Prepared by Joshua Palken (April 2, 2024) So the basics – the Idaho Board of Education (BOE) is an institution set up and mandated by
Prepared by Joshua Palken (4-3-2024) So a sincere local citizen posted some comments here in support of charter schools which really have a serious problem
Two citizen questions came up regarding pending MVSD Levy: 1) Can Charter schools run levies? YES and NO… AND ANOTHER GOOD CITIZEN QUESTION 2) Does
Joshua Palken is a retired attorney and resident of Elk City, Idaho, IDAHO COUNTY
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