The Idaho House on Wednesday widely passed a bill on a party-line vote to deregulate child care centers in hopes of ...

Idaho resident Mark Kirby choked up Wednesday while sharing the story of his 11-week-old nephew, who died of asphyxiation ...

Idaho is poised to become the first state in the country to eliminate state-mandated child-to-staff ratios for early care and education settings — a longstanding and universal licensing requirement ...

The Idaho House of Representatives widely passed a bill to let child care centers set their own child-to-staff ratios. Aimed at addressing Idaho’s child care crisis by easing the process to operate ...

NAMPA, Idaho ... care. Things only got worse this summer. The state, facing higher than expected demand and costs, abruptly stopped accepting most new applications in its federally funded child ...

The bill’s supporters argued that Idaho had tried to increase access to child care through federal and state subsidies of ... waived first-time licensing fees; and consolidated the licensing ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho resident Mark ... who died of asphyxiation last year at a day care that he said was violating state laws around supervision and child-to-staff ratios. Sabrina Dunn, the ...