There’s an elementary school in North Idaho where kids wear coats in class because the heat doesn’t work well. Teachers struggle to teach on a campus with broken technology, and administrators battle a faulty plumbing system. Idaho Statesman reporter Becca Savransky’s new investigative piece with ProPublica on the worst funded public school system in the country is jaw-dropping. Host Emma Arnold learns more about how our state’s school funding model is harming rural students, and why an Idaho Supreme Court ruling and record state surplus hasn’t fixed it. 

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