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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kayden Denny with her sister Jace and mother Tanya after performing a Native American hoop dance at Highland High School's graduation in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 9, 2023.

She’s the first ever Native valedictorian for her high school and for Salt Lake City

By Courtney Tanner | June 23, 2023, 8:46 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A meeting of the Salt Lake City School District Board of Education, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. Board members voted Tuesday to close the district's online elementary school.

Salt Lake City school board votes to shut down district’s virtual elementary school

By Michael Lee | June 21, 2023, 2:34 p.m.

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune)The Bible is read aloud at the Utah Capitol, Monday, Nov. 25, 2013. The Bible was been banned at elementary and middle schools in the Davis School District north of Salt Lake City in May 2023, after a review committee decided it wasn't age appropriate "due to vulgarity or violence." It was returned to shelves for all student with a vote by the district's school board on Tuesday, June 20, 2023.

Utah school board reverses Bible ban and calls out lawmakers who attacked the district

By Courtney Tanner | June 21, 2023, 2:36 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Longtime Highland High School teacher and counselor Dean Collett was honored at a memorial on the school's football field, where he never missed a game, on Friday, June 23, 2023.

‘Mr. Highland’: Celebrated Highland High teacher, counselor Dean Collett dies at 94

By Michael Lee | Sheila McCann | June 24, 2023, 2:31 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Aaron Skonnard, right, listens to other nominees' presentations before the Senate Education Confirmation Committee, June 5, 2023. Skonnard and eight other nominees to the Utah Board of Higher Education were confirmed by the Utah Senate Thursday.

Gov. Cox’s picks to oversee Utah higher education approved by Senate

By Carmen Nesbitt | June 16, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Crossing guard Bing Kerwood helps students cross the street safely at Bonneville Elementary on Tuesday, April 20, 2021.

Utah education was ‘already a leaky boat’ before the COVID-19 pandemic

By Megan Banta | June 16, 2023, 12:58 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. John Johnson, R-Ogden, pictured on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Johnson railed against Davis School District on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, for removing the Bible for younger students while maintaining broader access to the book "The Freedom Writers Diary" that he finds too explicit for schools.

Utah lawmaker accuses school district of distributing porn to minors through books

By Courtney Tanner | June 15, 2023, 4:22 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Park City School District offices in Park City on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

‘Let’s not surrender our schools to this so-called equity’: A proposed DEI policy is dividing Park City

By Michael Lee | June 15, 2023, 4:21 p.m.

(Screengrab) Sara Hacken, center, Alpine School District's school board president, spoke to lawmakers on the Administrative Rules Review and General Oversight Committee on June 12, 2023. At left is Kraig Brinkerhoff, the district's executive director of legal services and at right is Julie King, Alpine School District school board vice president.

Utah lawmakers suggest changing school closure law during tense Alpine District testimony

By Michael Lee | June 13, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Tribune file photo) The Bible pictured at the Utah Capitol on Wednesday, January 4, 2017. A review committee in Davis School District determined the religious text should be banned in elementary and middle school libraries. On Monday, June 12, 2023, Utah lawmakers railed the district for that decision.

Republican lawmakers attack Utah school district that banned the Bible for ‘embarrassing’ the state

By Courtney Tanner | June 15, 2023, 4:22 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alexis Archuleta holds the beaded graduation cap she was not allowed to wear at her Hillcrest graduation, on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

A Navajo student was told she couldn’t wear her beaded cap at graduation — violating the new Utah law on regalia

By Courtney Tanner | June 15, 2023, 6:53 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Hailey Bowen, a fourth grader at Long View Elementary, doing online schoolwork at home in Murray on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Recent data is showing significant learning gaps among Utah's K-12 students as a result of COVID-19 school shutdowns and long-term remote learning.

Is there a way back from the pandemic learning gap?

By Holly Mullen | June 11, 2023, 2:36 p.m.

(Associated Press | Rick Bowmer) The Book of Mormon is shown Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Salt Lake City. The religious text for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being challenged in Davis School District after a request for review was submitted on June 2, 2023.

Read the parent request to remove the Book of Mormon from some Utah schools

By Courtney Tanner | June 10, 2023, 12:26 a.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Prison inmates Dusten Anderson, left, and Albert Givens get ready to receive their high school diplomas as the Utah Department of Corrections and Salt Lake City School District host the inaugural high school graduation ceremony at the Utah State Correctional Facility on Monday, June 5, 2023.

These Utah State Prison inmates just graduated. Here’s what they say about their degrees.

By Courtney Tanner | June 6, 2023, 1:42 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Amanda Covington, one of nine nominees to the Utah Board of Higher Education, makes her presentation before the Utah Senate Education Confirmation Committee, Monday, June 5, 2023 at the Capitol.

“Cultural wars,” AI and the needs of Utah employers dominate the vetting of higher education board nominees

By Carmen Nesbitt | June 6, 2023, 2:03 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A collection of copies of the Book of Mormon photographed on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Davis School District received a challenge to the Book of Mormon being in school libraries on Friday, June 2, 2023.

Book of Mormon now challenged in Utah school district that banned the Bible

By Courtney Tanner | June 3, 2023, 4:46 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Ivory sponsored a law to ban "pornographic or indecent" books from school libraries. He was initially opposed to his measure being used to ban the Bible, but now says he supports the religious text being removed from elementary and middle schools in Davis School District.

Utah lawmaker who wrote law that led to school district Bible ban now wants ‘all instructional materials’ reviewed

By Courtney Tanner | June 2, 2023, 11:50 p.m.

(Pool photo, Chantelle McCall | The Utah Statesman) In this March 27, 2019, file photo, Torrey Green looks back to his family during his sentencing in Brigham City, Utah. The Utah Supreme Court on Thursday rejected Green's request for a new trial in connection to six women's reports that he sexually assaulted them.

It was fair for 6 women to testify about similar sex assaults by former USU athlete, Utah top court rules

By Jessica Miller | June 2, 2023, 3:48 p.m.

(Tribune Illustration) Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has nominated 10 new members to serve on the Utah Board of Higher Education. The nominees include, from left, Aaron Skonnard, Cydni Tetro, Sharon Eubank, Jon Cox and Tina Larson. The nominations are subject to approval by the Utah Senate.

Gov. Cox’s picks to oversee Utah higher education to be vetted by Senate committee Monday

By Carmen Nesbitt | June 2, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Tribune file photo) The Bible is read aloud at the Utah Capitol in this photo from Monday, November 25, 2013. After a parent challenged the Bible being in public schools, Davis School District has decided in spring 2023 to remove the book from elementaries and middle schools, while leaving it in high schools.

The Bible is banned in these Utah elementary and middle schools now for ‘vulgarity or violence’

By Courtney Tanner | June 2, 2023, 9:40 p.m.