(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah parents can now apply for free or reduced price school meals. The Utah State Board of Education says the applications have been sent home to parents. Eligibility will be evaluated based on income and household size. Parents can apply at any time during the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers are looking for ways to solve school lunch debt. The total statewide meal debt during the 2022 to 2023 school year is more than one million dollars. Republican Representative Tyler Clancy says he’s drafting a bill that would provide easier access to free […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Schools across Utah are dealing with a shortage of psychologists. According to the National Association of School Psychologists, there should be one psychologist for every five-hundred students, but Utah schools have an average of one psychologist for every 23-hundred students. Granite School District psychology coordinator […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — State lawmakers want to implement tougher penalties for anyone who makes hoax school threats in Utah. While such hoaxes can be classified as either misdemeanors or felonies depending on the circumstances, Representative Ryan Wilcox says the punishments for either should be strong and levied uniformly. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A state task force met on Monday to discuss school building safety in Utah. School buildings throughout the state vary from decades old to newly-built, and officials want to make sure they’re all equally safe. During the hearing, experts discussed about 40 indicators of safe […]
(Farmington, UT) — A Utah State Senator is criticizing the Davis School District for banning the Bible while allowing more inappropriate books to stay on the shelves. Republican Senator John Johnson argues the district has left books in schools that are clearly pornographic and in violation of state law. He […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Protesters are criticizing a Utah school district over the decision to remove the Bible from some of its libraries. Dozens of protesters showed up at the State Capitol yesterday to blast the decision by the Davis School District and demand that the book be returned […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Climate change remains on Utah’s supplemental education standards for science and engineering. The Utah State Board of Education approved the standard by a narrow eight-to-seven vote last week at the end of a 14-hour meeting. The board chose to reject amendments that would have removed […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — School lunch debt is climbing across the Beehive State. Fox13 Now asked for the unpaid fees for meals in each of Utah’s 41 districts and got responses from nearly three dozen of them. The total debt for the 35 districts who responded was more than […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers will have a great deal to discuss before they return to the State Capitol for their next session in January. Interim committees will be holding hearings throughout the year and the topics up for discussion were released yesterday. Lawmakers will keep working on […]
