U.S. Department of Education

More than 320,000 people in Utah have federal student loans. On May 5, the U.S. Department of Education will start collecting loans from defaulters and is expected to garnish wages this summer.

The resolution, which drew attention online and hundreds of messages to board members, called on schools to get rid of any remaining DEI practices. Utah’s anti-DEI law was passed in 2024.

U.S. District Judge John Broomes' decision is the third against the rule from a federal judge in recent weeks. It applies in Alaska, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming because they sued.

The U.S. Department of Education’s rollout of an updated student aid application promised to make the process easier. But riddled with problems, the number of completed applications have dropped.

Administrators at Utah’s largest public university say colleges need to adapt to the modern world, in part by improving dismal student outcomes. But faculty are pushing back against what they see as a corporate approach to education.

Utah was the only state to not see a statistically significant decline in eighth grade math scores between 2022 and 2019. Utah’s fourth graders, on the other hand, did see test scores go down.

The U.S. Department of Education announced last week that it would automatically forgive student loan debt for any veterans who became totally and…

Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz had very few nice things to say about the federal government in his speech to the Utah Legislature today.Speaking to the…