(Uintah Basin, UT) — The Ute Indian Tribe is calling on state congress to improve its public school system. This comes after data from the 2022 — 2023 school year shows that Ute students are falling further behind and dropping out more than nearly every demographic statewide. Lawmakers currently do […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox wants southern Utah students and others around the state to keep their phones put away. The state’s chief executive sent a letter to schools and districts last week encouraging educators to keep phones out of classrooms, citing social media apps as a […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah Governor Spencer Cox wants schools to curb students’ cell phone usage. Cox sent a letter to educational leaders across Utah, including the State Board of Education, urging them to remove cell phones during class time. The governor called cell phones a distraction and said […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s 2024 legislative session gets underway one week from today. Lawmakers will be back at the State Capitol building in Salt Lake City next Tuesday with hundreds of bills already ready to review. Among the topics expected to come up in education include banning cell […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A bill is being drafted that’s designed to stop high school teachers from grooming their students for sexual relationships. This bill started when one young woman in Utah tried to report her high school teacher after the two had a sexual relationship while she was […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox says he supports banning smartphones in Utah’s K-through-12 classrooms. Cox said yesterday there is “overwhelming” evidence that smartphones contribute to learning loss. The governor said he plans to contact every school in the state and ask principals to keep smartphones from being […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah State Board of Education is considering enacting a policy that would force public schools to share student information with charter schools. Public schools would share information including addresses and phone numbers to make it easier for charter schools to advertise directly to families. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers are looking at a proposal to make it easier to remove books from school libraries across the state. West Jordan Republican Representative Ken Ivory’s plan would set off removal of a single title from all Utah schools if at least three school districts […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — School enrollment in Utah is down for the first time ever. The State Board of Education said yesterday that public school enrollment fell by nearly two-thousand students this year. That’s a three-tenths of a percent decrease from 2022. The biggest drops were in elementary grades, […]
(Salt Lake City) — Utah’s early childhood education system could be in danger of sweeping shutdowns as early as next year. A report from advocacy group Voices for Utah Children shows as many as two-thirds of the state’s daycares could close once funds from the American Rescue Plan start to […]
