Salt Lake City School District

The district is proposing closing Hawthorne, M. Lynn Bennion, Mary W. Jackson and Riley elementaries.

When students at East, West and Highland high schools in Salt Lake City return from fall break on Oct. 17, they’ll be met with new weapons detectors and security guards.

“A group of loud parents is not a reason to keep a school open. It is also a useful data point for the people who are making this decision,” Emerson Elementary parent Joey McNamee said.

How short? The Salt Lake City School District needs 7 bus drivers and the city is looking for almost 20 crossing guards.

Elizabeth Grant is now the fifth superintendent to lead the district since 2020.

As Utah lawmakers debate which books should and should not be in school libraries, the focus is often on removals. Librarians, however, say a lot of thought goes into choosing titles in the first place.

Due to the unintended association with the TV show South Park and because the Utah State Prison moved to a new location, South Park Academy decided it was time for a fresh start.

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.

Salt Lake City School District used federal COVID relief funds to open Salt Lake Virtual Elementary School in 2021 as a pilot program.

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.

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.