Utah State Board of Education

Lawmakers put $42.5 million into the program, enough to cover about 5,000 students. Applications will open on Feb. 28, 2023.

A 2022 law directed the Utah State Board of Education to put literacy coaches in schools with low literacy rates.

The report from the National Council on Teacher Quality gave the test that Utah uses a “strong” rating, while 29 other states got a “weak” rating.

Viewmont High School teacher Carly Maloney was selected by a committee of representatives from parent and teacher advocacy organizations, charter schools, the Utah State Board of Education and the 2023 teacher of the year.

Some of the proposed changes would allow schools to remove some books quicker and without the input of parents. It would also allow certain books to be banned statewide.

A recent school board meeting in the Jordan School District got heated when the topic of transgender students using bathrooms was brought up.

Utah has a goal of getting 70% of third-grade students reading at grade level by 2027. As of the end of the last school year, only 48% of third-grade students were reading at grade level.

The decision comes a few weeks after board leadership distanced themselves from statements made by one of its members, Natalie Cline, on social media.

The biennial, anonymous survey asks students questions about how they view their school environment, if there are issues like bullying and about the students’ gender and race.

Eighty years ago, James Hatsuaki Wakasa was killed in a Japanese American internment camp in Utah. His story is one piece of Utah’s history with internment.

Those helping to implement the science of reading instruction in Utah are hopeful the state will be able to get to 70% proficiency by 2027.

“We believe there's so many valuable experiences that a student has outside of school,” said Piute County School District Superintendent Koby Willis.