The Hope Scholarship Program Bill will be going through the House Taxation and Revenue committee TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, @ 8:00 am. CALL TO ACTION: CLICK HERE to EMAIL THE HOUSE TAXATION AND REVEUE COMMITTEE TO ASK THEM TO VOTE NO ON PASSING HB331 OUT OF COMMITTEE csnider@le.utah.gov ; adamrobertson@le.utah.gov ; nabbott@le.utah.gov ; sbarlow@le.utah.gov ; jbriscoe@le.utah.gov ; seliason@le.utah.gov ; sharrison@le.utah.gov…
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 on Equity of Educational Services for Students. The committee’s purpose is to advise the USBE on “underrepresented, historically marginalized and underserved students,” and its membership…
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 free fall, and the writing is on the wall: public education has been co-opted by third-parties and outside interests and our children have become a…
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 a “best practices guidance” on how to create an “environment of dignity and respect for all.” It didn’t. In fact, it faced intense criticism from…
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 to the schools of their choice, whether those options offer public, private, charter, dual-enrollment, or home-based instruction. Even better, non-traditional routes like homeschooling and private schooling have the added advantage of…
Granite School District is telling parents that the ONLY way they’re going to get a respirator or mask exemption for their kids is to come into the schools to fill out a form that asks for much, much more information than is required by Salt Lake County. In fact, you couldn’t be blamed if you…
The county-wide “mask” mandate issued by the Salt Lake County Health Department Friday, January 7, is much worse than you realize. Come Monday, thousands of parents will be sending their kids to schools in masks, thinking that that will be enough to comply with the order. Think again. Late Sunday night, the Salt Lake County…
Big win for parents! Granite School District’s Canvas settings no longer allow the selection of pronouns in a student’s personal profile. The problem was first reported by a concerned parent earlier this week. After calls to the district by parents and social media exposure of the issue, it looks as if a student’s pronoun information is…
Why is Granite School District breaking the law? And how in the world are they getting away with it? The answer may surprise you…. These screenshots were taken in December of 2021. What you are looking at is 3 different student profile pages on the CANVAS web-based learning management system used by almost every…
Standardized testing claims to be able to measure a student’s academic skills and even intelligence… Pretty high claim for a process that’s highly subjective and definitely unscientific. First, read this (yes I know it’s on HuffPost, but press on, it’s eye opening): Then, if you haven’t done this for your kids already, OPT OUT of…
