Commentary
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How Utah Has Turned Religious Freedom from a Controversy to a Consensus
Utah leads the way in averting religious-freedom conflicts through consensus protections.
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How to get curriculum transparency right for teachers
Being transparent about instruction can help teachers accomplish what they naturally desire: professional growth and improved teaching outcomes.
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How Utah supports both public and private education
Utah lawmakers have expressed through their policy decisions a desire to support all student learning, regardless of where Utah families decide to educate their children.
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Why funding more microschools in Utah makes sense
Microschools deserve a chance to thrive.
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As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
Marriage does more to lift people from poverty than money from Uncle Sam. New legislation reflects this.
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Respect for local control means keeping the ranked choice voting pilot program
The pilot program is working. Cities are adopting or rejecting ranked choice voting according to the expressed will of their voters.
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What would Utah’s version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act look like?
This bill would create a strong framework to deal with unforeseen religious freedom conflicts
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How curriculum transparency can boost the parent-teacher partnership
Utah should continue its “weird” approach by creating curriculum transparency reform that empowers parents, supports teachers, and strengthens the parent-teacher partnership.
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The ‘success sequence’ is a bipartisan vision for upward mobility. Policymakers should embrace it
In our polarized political environment, it’s not often that an idea garners majority support across party affiliation, ideology, and demographic differences. New Sutherland Institute polling shows that the success sequence is just such a concept with broad resonance among likely…
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What Democrats and Republicans have in common on education curriculum beliefs
We can increase curriculum transparency in our state without overburdening educators.