Letter to Bonneville Legislators

As Republican voters in Bonneville County, we choose to affiliate with the party because we agree with most
or all of the principles that Republicans traditionally stand for.
School choice has been a well-known platform plank of the Republican party in Idaho, the National GOP,
and surrounding states for many years. It’s a defining issue that separates Republicans from Democrats,
and it’s one of the reasons we choose to affiliate with the Idaho GOP.
We call on our Republican elected state legislators in Bonneville to advance legislation that facilitates true
education competition through real school choice with money following the student.
We also call on our local Republican Party officials to fulfill their duty to the voters who have affiliated with
our party platform by supporting, assisting, and encouraging our state legislators to advance the well-known
school choice goals of the party that we have affiliated with.

ARTICLE III. EDUCATION
Section 2: We believe parents have the right to educate their children at home, that court rulings that undermine these rights
devalue the important role of parents and family in a child’s education.
Section 3: We believe in improving the quality of education for every child by maximizing parental choice. This will be
accomplished through money following students to their parent’s school of choice. We support all educational environments
desired by parents including public charter schools, public virtual charter schools, homeschools, schooling at home,
microschools, learning pods, co-ops, private and parochial schools, and accountable public-school systems.
Section 4: We believe all students are entitled to our support, and to fair and equitable funding and therefore strongly support the
adoption of a change to Idaho’s public school funding formula that includes school choice through an education savings account
and more evenly distributes state funds while holding our rural schools harmless. Nothing in this section compels a family to receive in any way government support.