In my 14-year career, I had never witnessed this amount of innovation and change in education. It was a change that responded to what parents and teachers and the dollars they represent wanted.
As a sixth-grade teacher in a low-income school, I did what I could in the system to support parents, but the system has limits.
Sometimes, the best fit for students wasn’t a public school at all.
As Utah and other states begin to re-open and recover from the COVID-19 crisis, we have an opportunity to reflect on some of the potentially positive outcomes of the massive disruption on education. This is a field that has historically been slow to adapt to innovative improvements. Many have begun to rethink what education will look like once the crisis resolves.
Another year, another proposal to increase taxes — and this time, it’s a group called Our Schools Now asking Utahns to raise their gas taxes in the form of Question 1 on your voting ballot.
