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Utah Education Association’s Policy and Research Director Jay Blain said voters should look for someone who is both willing to listen to the public and work collaboratively with other board members and the school district.
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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.
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“I would say all teachers use their own money at some point,” said Utah Education Association President Renée Pinkney. “I know that a lot of elementary teachers, they spend an awful lot of their own money.”
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The Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control is now the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services. It is now taking a service-oriented approach to support all Utah residents.
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The goal is to get 70% of Utah third graders reading at grade level by 2027.
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The latest Utah news for Thursday morning, Mar. 3, 2022.
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A proposal to expand all-day kindergarten would’ve provided three years of funding to help districts plan for hiring more teachers and potentially building additional classroom space.
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HB 331 would have given students a scholarship for private school tuition, private tutors or textbooks if they were opted out of public school.
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The legislative session is in its final stretch, with just one week left. This is the time when lawmakers vote on a ton of the session's most important and most controversial bills.
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Less than half of Utah students are reading at grade level. A new bill would be a “sea change” in improving outcomes.
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A $24 million bill appears likely to clear the Utah Legislature this year, providing four-years worth of funding to help districts and charters make full-day kindergarten available to all students.
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Today's local Utah news headlines — Friday morning, Jan. 21, 2022