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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5 days ago |
sltrib.com | Courtney Tanner |Carmen Nesbitt
Madison Owens works two jobs and her husband holds down three more just so the Ogden couple can keep up with their monthly bills, like a financial version of Whack-a-mole that's impossible for them to win. And the game is about to get harder. Right now, their expenses don't include what they'll need to start covering next year, when Owens is done with her master's program in occupational health and her federal loan repayments from undergrad - which are deferred for now - kick in.
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3 weeks ago |
ij.org | Carmen Nesbitt
With applications for Utah’s school voucher program due in about a week — and scholarships for the 2025–26 school year set to go out by the end of May —thousands of families now face uncertainty over whether the program will survive a judge’s ruling that deemed it unconstitutional.
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3 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Carmen Nesbitt
Utah's $100 million school voucher program violates the state's constitution, a judge ruled Friday. "[Because] the Program is a legislatively created, publicly funded education program aimed at elementary and secondary education, it must satisfy the constitutional requirements applicable to the 'public education system' set forth in the Utah Constitution," Third District Judge Laura Scott wrote in her ruling.
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4 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Carmen Nesbitt
Before becoming a Utah representative, Nicholeen Peck, a Republican from Tooele, made headlines in 2018 when she claimed she could access pornographic content through academic research databases available to public school students.
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1 month ago |
sltrib.com | Carmen Nesbitt
Utah's pride flag ban doesn't take effect until May 7, but it's already raised questions about what Utah public school teachers can - and can't - display in their classrooms. It came to a head recently when a West High School teacher in Salt Lake City recorded a video in her classroom, sharing the rainbow-colored stickers and signs thatshe chose to display in lieu of pride flags.
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