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House sidetracks bill to put state funds into National Guard Youth Challenge

After much debate, the House has decided by unanimous consent to return HB 662, the bill to declare the National Guard Youth Challenge program an alternative secondary school and make it eligible for state funding, to committee. Lawmakers have struggled to find ways to support the proposed school in Pierce in north-central Idaho, but Gov. Butch Otter didn't recommend state funding in his proposed budget for next year, and there are questions about possible federal funding.



Betsy Z. Russell

Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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