EDITORIAL: 3, 2, 1… It's lift-off for graduates
Only time will tell if Idaho Launch is a successful educational moon shot or a $70.8 million dud that sputters and wobbles before splashing down in some shocked farmer’s pond.
It’s an expensive experiment well worth the risk in an ongoing attempt to eventually connect more of our high school graduates to jobs that are in demand across the Gem State.
Idaho Launch was created by the 2023 Idaho Legislature and funded — over plenty of blood, sweat and tears — during this year’s session. It sets aside $8,000 for at least 9,250 of the 13,000 students who met the April 15 application deadline. That’s almost half of the 21,000 Idaho high school seniors who recently were handed their diplomas and are now preparing for college.
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