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Utah’s K12 schools see historic enrollment drop

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The overall number of kids attending traditional and charter K12 schools in Utah has seen its biggest drop in a decade, new data shows. There are 4,873 fewer children attending public school this fall than there were at the start of the 2023-24 school year, amounting to an historic 0.7% drop.

Utah is paying to bulletproof school windows and doors

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Utah lawmakers set aside $72 million last year to help schools fund critical security upgrades, such as bulletproof window film, security cameras and emergency alert systems.

Utah schools now provide free period products. Two years later, here’s why students say it’s a success.

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Two years after Utah lawmakers mandated that all public schools in the state provide students with free period products, students who use them are missing class less often and feeling more confident.

Inside the last day of school ever for these closing Salt Lake City elementaries

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The Salt Lake City school board’s January decision to close the schools came after the district first studied all 27 of its elementaries for potential closure. That study followed a 2022 report from state auditors, in which they criticized the district for keeping schools open with declining enrollment.

Special education students in Utah’s largest district must switch schools—and parents are furious

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This fall, the Alpine School District will implement a new “consolidated” special education class structure, forcing about 150 special education students in grades K-6 to transfer to different schools.

Longtime Salt Lake City charter school will close unless it finds a new sponsor quickly

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The state charter school board and Salt Lake City School District have cited enrollment and financial concerns with the Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts.

‘Kind of scary’: More Utah students feel unsafe in school restrooms, state data shows

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The survey results show higher rates of safety concerns among LGBTQ+ students. About 30% of respondents are also feeling unsafe in school parking lots.

First of its kind: Salt Lake City students can now get physical, mental health care at West High clinic

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The new clinic is available to all high schoolers within the Salt Lake City School District, as long as they have parental consent—including middle schoolers at West High’s magnet program.

After staying neutral for a year, Utah’s largest teachers union opposes diverting money from education

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A proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot this fall would allow the state to use income tax money originally for education ‘to support other state needs.’

Parents challenged the Book of Mormon, the Quran in this Utah school district. Here’s what happened next

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The review of the religious titles took eight months in Davis School District, which previously took heat for banning the Bible before later reversing that decision.

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