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
Utah County resident Becky Golly was 44 when she began her prison sentence in 2018 and hadn’t been in school for almost three decades. She left the Utah State Correctional Facility six years later with two associate degrees from Salt Lake Community College, multiple certificates from Davis Technical College and several classes from the University of Utah under her belt. “I am doing really great,” Golly said as she smiled in reflection on the past six months since she was released in October.
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1 week ago |
kuer.org | Martha Harris
Utah’s ban on public sector collective bargaining will not go into effect as scheduled. The ban in the 2025 law was set to go into effect May 7. But with labor groups likely to succeed in their effort to get a referendum on the ballot to repeal the law, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson issued a temporary stay until all referendum signatures are processed.
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2 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Martha Harris |Saige Miller
Utah’s law banning transgender girls from competing in school sports is back in court. A judge blocked the law from taking effect in 2022. Now, attorneys representing transgender students argue the state quit complying with the court’s injunction because of President Donald Trump’s February executive order that attempts to bar transgender girls from competing in school sports.
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2 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Martha Harris |Saige Miller
A repeal of the state’s ban on collective bargaining for public sector unions has the signatures it needs to land on the 2026 midterm ballot. After a 30-day campaign and submitting a massive amount of signatures, Utah labor groups have met the requirement, according to numbers from the Lt. Governor’s Office. But it’s not a done deal yet. Opponents of the referendum effort still have time to try to get voters to remove their names. If the numbers hold, the law would be on pause until voters weigh in.
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3 weeks ago |
kuer.org | Martha Harris
Utah Tech University is the smallest university by enrollment in the state, but it released a big list of potential cuts to comply with budget cuts and restructuring mandated by the Legislature. Lawmakers took a collective $60.5 million from the state’s eight public degree-granting institutions during the 2025 legislative session. Schools can get that money back if they eliminate “low-performing” or “inefficient” programs and reinvest the money elsewhere.
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