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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Kirsten Baesler with the U.S. Department of Education speak on a panel at the governor’s Literacy and Reading Symposium in Ogden, Jan. 6, 2026. KSL News anchor Deanie Wimmer moderates the conversations.

Utah quiere seguir el ejemplo de Mississippi al retener a los estudiantes que no saben leer

Martha Harris

Solo la mitad de los estudiantes de tercer grado en Utah están leyendo al nivel de su grado. El gobernador Spencer Cox cree que tener una ley para hacer que los estudiantes con dificultades en lectura repitan el grado ayudaría a aumentar ese número.

Politics & Government

Utah wants to follow Mississippi’s example in holding back students who can’t read

Martha Harris

Only half of Utah third-graders are reading at grade level. Gov. Spencer Cox thinks having a law to hold students struggling with reading back a grade would help boost that number.

FILE - Families and victims advocates participate in a prayer walk around the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center to mark Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Day in Albuquerque, N.M., Sunday, May 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Race, Religion & Social Justice

Unsolved violent crimes in Native American communities to get more attention with FBI surge

Associated Press

The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states over the next six months to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country.

FILE - A group of LGBTQ advocates gather outside the South Dakota Capitol in Pierre on Jan. 26, 2021, to protest a bill that would have banned people from updating the sex on their birth certificates. A Little Rock pharmacist's testimony before a legislative committee about gender-affirming care for minors resulted in an Arkansas lawmaker asking about her genitalia. The exchange highlights the type of hostile rhetoric that transgender people say they’re facing at statehouses across the country.

Politics & Government

As gender-affirming care bans spread, trans people face ‘horrifying’ rhetoric at statehouses

Associated Press

The Human Rights Campaign says at least 150 bills targeting transgender people have been introduced this year — including gender-affirming care bans for minors that have been enacted in South Dakota and Utah.

News

SLC Mayor and Council Shun Miss., No. Carolina for LGBT Discrimination

Bob Nelson

Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski and the City Council are taking action in the wake of recent legislation in Mississippi and North Carolina that…