Spending in Idaho schools increases with fewer students
By Briana LeClaire
This table compares the expenditures of eleven Idaho school districts in 1999 and 2008 and shows spending per student increased between ten and 122 percentage points regardless of whether the districts lost or gained students. All numbers are from the Idaho State Department of Education website.
The Twin Falls School District [...]
An artful use of stimulus dollars?
By Jay Howell
Idaho Freedom Foundation
More than $470,000 in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the stimulus plan) funds have found their way to Idaho arts groups. This money came from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and went either directly to groups like the Boise Contemporary Theater, the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and the Log Cabin [...]
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Residents of Idaho‘s 5th District would have seen the benefit of $1.2 million, had they actually existed.
The state, which has only two congressional districts, distributed federal stimulus funds to 10 districts, which do not exist, according to recovery.gov.
A Watchdog study revealed 440 non-existent congressional districts within the stimulus tracking web site, recovery.org. The full report can [...]
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