A small group of agitators may be determined to intimidate parents, but the rest of Idaho shouldn’t let them. These meetings belong to families. The conversation belongs to the community.

Teachers’ unions are known for filing lawsuits against school choice, and as expected, on September 26, 2025, a committee led by the Idaho Education Association (IEA) filed suit with the Idaho Supreme Court, asking justices to declare a Writ of Prohibition to prevent House Bill 93’s Parental Choice Tax Credit from opening on January 15, 2026 . ​ On November 10, 2025, Mountain States Policy Center filed an amicus brief addressing the IEA’s claims with national case law analys

On October 24 th , 2025, I was honored to be a keynote speaker at the Idaho Department of Education’s 10th Annual Family and Community Engagement Conference in Sun Valley, ID. Over 300 teachers, principals, and community leaders came together for this year's event, giving a state-wide perspective on all the things we should be doing to better equip our parents and students with what they need to succeed in educating their youth. The keynote addressed my most recent research p

Idaho parents, my name is Meg Goudy, and as the Director of the Bill & Milly Kay Baldwin Center for Education at Mountain States Policy Center, I am excited to help Idaho families navigate through the eligibility and application process for the new Parental Choice Tax Credit Program. This exciting new tax credit was enacted through House Bill 93 to help Idaho families pay for qualified private education expenses. Several key deadlines are approaching, and I strongly encourage

Mountain States Policy Center (MSPC), the leading free-market think tank serving the Mountain West, is pleased to announce the hiring of Meg Goudy as Director of the Bill & Milly Kay Baldwin Center for Education.

The campaign will include the launch of a website to answer questions, a robust series of public town hall meetings across the state, a multi-phase media effort, and legal support to protect the law from special interest challenges.

If the courts adopt the unions’ radical theory, Idaho’s tax code could be turned upside down, creating chaos for families, uncertainty for schools, and higher costs for everyone. That’s not justice—it’s activism at its worst.

Public schools and education choice are not enemies. They are complementary tools that serve the same purpose: ensuring every child has access to a quality education that fits their needs.

There is no mention of improving outcomes for Idaho children. Instead, petitioners spend nearly nine pages of the legal filing arguing they have standing and another nine pages begging the court to require taxpayers reimburse their attorney fees.

Moscow’s school board isn’t standing up for students. Instead, it's standing in the way of parents, punishing taxpayers, and trying to take choices away from Idaho families who need them most.

Note: This is a joint op-ed with Peter Murphy ( Invest in Education Coalition ). The old saying that states are the “laboratories of...

Yes, the state technically “met its goals,” but no one should be satisfied with half of Idaho kids struggling to meet watered-down expectations.

Opponents of parental choice in education are reviving their favorite scare tactic: the "voucher" boogeyman.

Idaho’s new school choice program is turning up the heat. That’s great news — because every school, public or private, should have to prove its worth.

While funds may be temporarily paused for the nearly 4,000 families approved to receive education savings account funding in Wyoming...

Mountain States Policy Center (MSPC) is proud to announce the official launch of the Bill & Milly Kay Baldwin Center for Education, a new research and advocacy hub focused on expanding educational opportunity and defending student-centered policy reforms throughout the Mountain West.

Most Americans are unaware that the National Education Association (NEA) — the nation’s largest teachers’ union — enjoys a rare privilege: a federal charter granted by Congress in 1906. That puts the NEA in the same elite company as storied civic institutions like the American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts of America, and the U.S. Olympic Committee.

Parents, you won't want to miss these details from the Idaho State Tax Commission. The full implementation of HB 93 (school choice tax...

Government cannot condition the benefit of free public education on a requirement that threatens a family's religious beliefs.

The Wyoming Education Association’s (WEA) lawsuit  against school-choice legislation reveals its hostility to children, families and...