Christine Cooke Fairbanks
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Private education in 2025: enrollment and key policies
The future of private school enrollment could be significantly impacted by the expansion of education choice programs.
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Home-based education in 2025: the numbers and top issues
Home-schooling rates are increasing across the country long after the pandemic, with an estimate of 5% of students being home-schooled.
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Public schools in 2025: enrollment and key issues
Among the issues Utah education leaders have championed are expanding CTE, addressing absenteeism, and helping English language learners.
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National politics may shake up the federal approach to education. Utah should stay the course
Utahns simultaneously support education choice and better public schools.
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How Utah can prohibit address discrimination in open enrollment policy
Public policy ought to ensure a student’s residential address is not a reason to deny an application to transfer to another school.
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Could Trump’s second term forever change federal education policy?
President-elect proposes using federal funding preferences for states that make changes like adopting complete curriculum transparency and universal school choice, among other reforms.
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Despite support for education savings accounts, awareness of Utah Fits All remains low
Among other findings, survey indicates that education choice is officially no longer the lightning rod issue that it once was in Utah.
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Utah’s open enrollment policy is strong – implementation less so
When districts do not faithfully implement Utah’s open enrollment law, they may be effectively denying parents practical access to better public schools for their child.
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New data highlights voter priorities in education
There is a stark difference in opinion about the quality of public education between parents and teachers.
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Education & the 2024 Election: How Utah voters prioritize education issues
This issue brief provides an overview of likely voter sentiment toward different education policy issues in the state.