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PartialEducation Funding

Provide over $150 million in new public-school funding to address gaps in rural school facilities, mental health, school safety, and literacy.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

All four cited sources are reachable and support the PARTIAL rating. Source 1 (governor's office) confirms Little signed SB 1069 adding $5M ongoing literacy funding, with the quoted statement about getting Idaho kids to read proficiently appearing verbatim. Source 2 (governor's office) confirms HB 338 put $50M toward rural school facilities, quote verbatim, tied to the "Keeping Promises" plan. Source 3 (Idaho Education News) confirms the enacted FY2026 budget provided "no new additional state funding for anything other than pay increases and benefits for school staff," operations funding fell $379.2M→$374.5M, and the "worst year for public schools" quote appears verbatim (Brian Pyper). Source 4 (Idaho Education News) confirms $5M/yr for three years of science-of-reading coaching, 5% raises, and $85M additional to districts, though it is presented as a semicolon-joined composite rather than one contiguous verbatim sentence. The promise named four gap areas; the evidence shows two funded (rural facilities, literacy) and two not funded (mental health, school safety) — a genuine partial delivery. PARTIAL is well-calibrated and does not overstate the evidence: not FULL because two named gaps received no new funding, and not UNRATABLE because the sources are reachable and substantiate the finding. Minor immaterial notes: SB 1069 was signed March 17 (release dated March 18), and the mental-health/school-safety non-funding is a fair implication of "nothing other than pay and benefits" rather than an explicit article statement.

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