Carmen Nesbitt
Education Reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune
Diving deep into the A-BEE-Cs of K-12 education in Utah for the @sltrib 🐝. Send news tips to [email protected]. All opinions are my own.
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sltrib.com | Carmen Nesbitt
Fear of unintentionally violating Utah's sensitive materials law has prompted some teachers to get rid of their classroom libraries, state auditors found. One teacher told auditors she no longer recommends books to students, while several school administrators and librarians reported being "verbally attacked" by community members who found certain materials offensive.
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sltrib.com | Carmen Nesbitt
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sltrib.com | Megan Banta |Carmen Nesbitt
The state's largest-ever school voucher program launched at the start of the 2024-25 school year, making more than $80 million in taxpayer dollars available to about 10,000 students and their families. The Salt Lake Tribune wanted to know: How was the money spent? It took two reporters more than two months to analyze around eight monthsof spending data and make sense of how recipients actually used their $8,000 vouchers. Here's how we did it.
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sltrib.com | Carmen Nesbitt |Megan Banta
A seaboat tour in Seattle. Visits to medieval castles in England. Surf lessons in Hawaii. A meet-and-greet with a giant panda named Hua Mei at the San Diego Zoo. Those activities account for hundreds of taxpayer dollars that Utah parents spent through the state's more than $80 million school voucher program in its inaugural year, according to data provided to The Salt Lake Tribune.
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