This article originally appeared on the Deseret News. Read it in its entirety here. SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Supreme Court took under advisement Friday oral arguments over the constitutionality of a statute passed by the Utah Legislature in 2016 that calls for partisan State School Board elections. In December, 3rd District Judge Andrew
No one wants to take the state of Utah to court on a constitutional issue, but a group of civic-minded individuals and public interest organizations including the State PTA have done just that. The issue? Should elections for the State Board of Education be partisan or non-partisan? In 2016, the Utah Legislature passed SB78, which
We asked Utah teachers to tell us their education funding stories. How has funding affected life in their classrooms? How has it affected their career decisions or personal lives? We want to know. Education funding in Utah is inadequate – the state is 51st in the nation. Regardless, Utah teachers manage to work with large
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