Insights & Takeaways
Insights & Takeaways is Sutherland Institute’s official blog that informs the public and policymakers alike. The blog addresses important issues through the two distinct yet complementary lenses of the seasoned policy professional and the engaged citizen.
Insights: analysis, research, and informed commentary from Sutherland experts. For elected officials and public policy professionals.
Takeaways: the most important things voters need to know. For civically engaged citizens.
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Why Silicon Valley Bank failed, and what it means for Utahns
Read More: Why Silicon Valley Bank failed, and what it means for UtahnsUtah banking official says that “everything we know and have learned tell us that the circumstances leading to the closure of these banks were very unique and bear little relationship…
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How Congress could help make up for COVID learning loss
Read More: How Congress could help make up for COVID learning lossOriginally published in the Washington Examiner. As the years during and after the pandemic have demonstrated, America is rethinking education. More families are homeschooling than ever. More states are passing flexible education choice…
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How to remedy the West’s fractured election policies
Read More: How to remedy the West’s fractured election policiesThe 2024 presidential election cycle is slowly building momentum with a new headline each day speculating on who will, or will not, announce a candidacy. As the campaigns accelerate, they…
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Absenteeism and the success sequence
Read More: Absenteeism and the success sequenceWhat’s at the root of chronic absenteeism in schools? How should we view this current new normal in our post-pandemic world? What do we do about it now?
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States can learn from federal regulators how not to implement rules
Read More: States can learn from federal regulators how not to implement rulesNew HHS rule may include welcome changes for healthcare workers
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Colorado religious school asks Supreme Court to take case on ministerial exception
Read More: Colorado religious school asks Supreme Court to take case on ministerial exceptionU.S. law recognizes that courts should not second-guess a religious organization’s choices of spiritual leaders. An ex-teacher’s lawsuit says his firing shouldn’t have been allowed.
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Legislative wrap-up: Education policy’s new pluralism paradigm
Read More: Legislative wrap-up: Education policy’s new pluralism paradigmLaws that were passed in the 2023 session support educating students using a holistic approach that includes public and private options.
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Sutherland’s role in successful student-athlete uniform bill
Read More: Sutherland’s role in successful student-athlete uniform billThe legislation followed conversations that Sutherland helped facilitate between religious groups and legislators in Utah after similar legislation was enacted in Illinois.
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Family should be priority for interim
Read More: Family should be priority for interimAnother civic institution guided clearly by leaders that is as important and impactful, if not more, to the well-being of society: families led by parents.
