Thank Utah Teachers, Then Get them Better Pay

Every parent and grandparent should say thank you, a lot, to teachers. This acknowledgement of a job well done is particularly needed from the Legislature. 

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Anti-Eduction Factions Gain Control

It seems like a harmless enough statement, appearing on the State Board of Education's announcement of an opening for state schools superintendant and request for applications.

Under the list of qualifications, it states: "A candidate need not be licensed as a public educator."

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Funding Not Enough

Although lawmakers like to boast about their commitment to schools, additional money will, again, merely fund basic education for more than 10,000 additional students expected next year and mandated expenditures such as employee health and retirement funds.
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Enough is Enough

Teaching is my life's work. I have spent 35 years in public education. It is from this perspective, as we face a record number of education-related bills in the Utah Legislature, I must respectfully say, "Enough is enough."
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Schools Need More than IPads

The needs of Utah schools are many and diverse. Lockhart is wrong if she believes, as she has said, that technology will "transform the system" by itself. If she wants to be the education candidate for governor, she should offer a way to boost revenue, not only for iPads but for early-childhood education, better teacher pay and all the other items Utah schools so desperately need.
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School Funding Not Nearly Enough

Virtually all legislators claim "public education" as their top priority when campaigning. We'd like to see them make good on that claim.
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Funding Doesn't Always Reach Classrooms

When lawmakers decided to boost per-pupil spending last year by 2 percent, many Utahns cheered, envisioning that cash raining on teachers and classrooms.

In reality, much of that money was spoken for - by the state retirement system - long before it ever hit schools, a Salt Lake Tribune investigation has found.

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