(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 […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — State and local law enforcement agencies are investigating more than a dozen bogus threats called into Utah schools on Wednesday. The Utah Department of Public Safety said on Thursday that all the calls came from the same man who spoke with a “foreign accent.” DPS […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Department of Public Safety says hoax phone calls threatening violence at several schools all came from the same IP address. The agency says 13 schools were involved in yesterday’s series of active shooter calls. Each call used the same script and all of […]
(Davis County, UT) — A controversy is brewing in Utah’s Davis County School District where the Bible is being reviewed after a parent challenged the book under a state law passed last year. The petition to pull the book from the school library argues that the Bible is pornographic under […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Spencer Cox says a bill he’s signing will not exclude undocumented children from participating in extra-curricular activities. HB-209 will require students to provide certain identification to participate in sports and other extra-curricular activities in public and private schools. Cox said he waited a day […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah lawmakers are making a final push to get their bills through the legislature with just two days to go in the session. The House and Senate are set to adjourn at midnight tomorrow and lawmakers will spend much of their time putting the final […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Full-day kindergarten is just a governor’s signature away from being available throughout Utah. The Senate passed the All-Day-K bill Wednesday on a 24-to-3 vote, sending the measure to Governor Spencer Cox. The House had previously approved the bill. The bill changes the state’s funding formulas […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — State lawmakers are showing support for expanding kindergarten in Utah. The House voted in favor of a bill that would allow all-day kindergarten yesterday. School districts would be required to offer full-day and half-day options to parents. The 51-14 vote moves the bill to the […]
