Public Education’s Nasty New Nightmare
Public education has become a nightmare that many are refusing to wake from.
Portrait of a Graduate: The Story Behind State-Designed Student Sameness
Parents need to know that Portrait of a Graduate is a national program created by an Ohio-based company called Battelle for Kids. Portrait of a Graduate is being used to fundamentally transform …
50 Shades of Pretending to Protect Kids from Porn
Tomorrow, June 30, the Utah State Board of Education will debate this issue: What is the best way to prevent pornographic materials in the school? Two model policies have been …
USBE’s ACEESS Commitee brings Critical Race Theory to Utah schools
What is the Utah State Board of Education’s ACEESS committee and why should you care? In 2016, the USBE made a resolution to form ACEESS (pronounced “ak-cess”), the Advisory Committee …
Analysis: More risk than reward to HOPE Scholarship bill
The idea of “school choice” has a certain lure to it. Who doesn’t want more choice in where and how our kids become educated? Utah’s public school performance is in a …
The USBE Commits Educational Malpractice on Gender Issues
In September 2021, the Utah State Board of Education staff drafted a document entitled Understanding Gender Identity to Better Support Students, with some lofty goals of offering educators and administrators …
Utah School Choice: Slam Dunk or False Hope?
There’s a lot of conversation about school choice right now in Utah. Our state is a bit of an outlier in that families have wide latitude in sending their kids …
The Dept. of Justice can’t find “systemic racism” but still polices Davis School District
Recently the Davis School District has come under fire for what is being portrayed as rampant, systemic racism in its schools. No one is defending Davis School District leadership. The …