Granite School District

During this school year and last, the private security company contracted by the Granite School District has struggled with turnover.

“There were a lot of districts that lost a substantial amount of ground. And there were actually a couple of districts that improved over the pandemic,” said Tom Kane, faculty director of Harvard’s Center for Education Policy and Research.

The Salt Lake City School District is studying which elementary schools to potentially close in fall 2024. The district has not yet identified any specific schools.

There was an attempted kidnapping at Whittier Elementary in West Valley City on April 6 and another later that month in Salt Lake City while a student was walking to Liberty Elementary.

Students at Granger High School in the Granite School District are learning about the valley's air pollution challenges by submitting art to the Utah High School Clean Air Marketing Contest.

Lehi, Valley View, Lindon, Windsor and Sharon elementaries could all be closed as soon as this year.

The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute projects that by 2060, 5-to-17-year-olds will make up a smaller percentage of the population than they do now.

Twin Peaks, Spring Lane and Millcreek elementaries could close as soon as after this school year.

Eureka in Juab County’s Tintic School District and Vernal in the Uintah County School District will receive a combined 12 buses in the first round of funding.

Some Utah schools used federal COVID-19 relief funds to hire more staff to help students recover from the pandemic, academically and emotionally. But schools will have to find long-term funding if they want to keep the extra staff after the one-time federal funding ends in a couple of years.

Rep. Kera Birkeland sent the letter on House of Representatives letterhead. LGBTQ supporters accused her of escalating a culture war issue.

KUER’s Jon Reed responded to a school district's call for help by filling in as a sub. The situation is not as dire anymore, but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer a problem.