Martha Harris
Education Reporter at KUER-FM (Salt Lake City, UT)
Education Reporter @KUER [email protected]
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1 week ago |
kuer.org | Martha Harris
After a month of organizing to oppose Utah’s collective bargaining ban, union members and supporters dropped off boxes on boxes of signature packets at county clerks’ offices across Utah. The Protect Utah Workers coalition said Wednesday morning these mounds of paper contain about 320,000 signatures — more than double the amount they needed. The group of 19 labor unions wants to repeal the state’s new ban on public sector collective bargaining through a ballot referendum.
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1 week ago |
kuer.org | Martha Harris
Labor groups seeking to repeal Utah’s recent ban on public sector collective bargaining are coming up on their deadline to gather enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot. To trigger a referendum vote in 2026, the coalition of labor unions must collect 140,748 signatures from registered voters. Additionally, those voters have to represent at least 8% of voters in 15 of the state’s 29 Senate Districts. The Protect Utah Workers coalition includes both public and private labor unions.
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2 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Martha Harris
International students from at least seven Utah colleges have had their student visas revoked or records quietly terminated by the Trump administration. Across the country, colleges are reporting a similar pattern of international students unexpectedly having their visas stripped away. KUER reached out to colleges statewide to see how many students had been impacted.
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2 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Martha Harris |Saige Miller
The state legislature passed a law banning cellphones in Utah classrooms with almost unanimous support this year. However, this isn’t the first time lawmakers have tried to address phone use in schools. What changed was their approach to the issue. “We've got more studies, more data, more parents and more teachers upset with cellphone use in school,” Republican Rep. Trevor Lee said.
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1 month ago |
kuer.org | Martha Harris
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox issued his first veto out of the 2025 legislative session. With the intent of giving lawmakers more budget flexibility, SB37 would have rerouted education property tax dollars to the state’s General Fund. In his veto letter addressed to lawmakers, Cox wrote he was concerned the legislation would hurt public trust and potentially education funding. It also, he said, raised significant accounting and legal issues.
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