Megan Banta
City Hall Watchdog at The Register-Guard
Data Enterprise Reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune
Data reporting for @sltrib. Midwest transplant via Oregon and @registerguard. Data, public records and accountability nerd. Often hiking when not working.
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From Amazon to RC Willey, Utah parents spent at least $13M in voucher money at these major retailers
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sltrib.com | Megan Banta
From furniture to electronics and musical instruments to books, Utah Fits All families spent more than $13 million at 20 major retailers. That's around 20% of the money spent in the first year of Utah's school voucher program as of March, according to data provided to The Salt Lake Tribune.
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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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sltrib.com | Megan Banta
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3 weeks ago |
sltrib.com | Megan Banta
Note to readers: As a community-funded paper, The Salt Lake Tribune has chronicled Utah's housing crisis for years, but also looks to find solutions. In this series of stories, "Building Options," we'll look to outline the issue and why it matters, but also how state programs are showing signs of chipping away at the affordability crisis.
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