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There is no real accusation here that the campus or faculty are woke. Its a technical college. The broader backdrop is how radicalized the state GOP has become. Opposition to funding higher ed is now in the party platform.
Most people don’t know or care about precinct committeemen, so nobody really noticed when groups like Lahr’s Reagan Republicans began to recruit people who aligned with their values to run for the position. By the mid-2010s, though, the Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF) had emerged as the most powerful engine behind the takeover. The foundation, which describes itself as a free market think tank, explicitly opposes almost every type of government funding, all “redistribution of wealth,” and anything that might “promote the breakdown of the traditional family” by “incentivizing degeneracy.” But nothing has drawn the ire of the IFF like public education. Thanks to IFF-backed politicians, school funding initiatives can only appear on the ballot twice a year, and schools cannot fully explain why more funding is needed without running into restrictive, IFF-backed anti-electioneering laws. In 2021, a student accused Boise State of anti-conservative harassment in a diversity course. An independent investigation found no evidence of harassment or indoctrination, but, in a move the IFF takes credit for, the Idaho legislature nevertheless cut a total of $2.5 million from university budgets and passed a bill that targets “Critical Race Theory.” The “education” section of the IFF’s website contains over 100 articles, almost all of which attack state education in some way.
January 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM