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Utah charter school teachers want to clear up some misconceptions. Charter schools are public schools. Teachers are required to be certified.

Lawmakers and education leaders agree on at least one thing: It's time to rethink the way Utah pays teachers. The question is, will they agree on how to do it?

Lawmakers and education leaders agree on at least one thing: It's time to rethink the way Utah pays teachers. The question is, will they agree on how to do it?

A disparity between Utah's math curriculum and state math tests has been fixed. Late last year, education officials across the state became concerned when they realized state math tests didn't yet match Utah's new math curriculum.

Tina Armenta's car broke down the day she and her 13-year-old daughter planned to attend a sex education class at Planned Parenthood last week. As if that would stop her.

Utah teens have more access to soda pop, candy and other unhealthy snacks in schools than anywhere else in the nation. Just released federal data from 2006 show Utah ranks the worst in the nation in the percentage of schools that offer chocolate, other kinds of candy, salty

Lawmakers' plan to spend $20 million next school year on performance pay for educators might have some problems, several superintendents said Thursday.

Controversy over the International Baccalaureate (I.B.) program likely will return to the state Capitol today, and a busload of Skyline High School students are headed to the hill to defend it.

BOISE, Idaho - The state's newest virtual charter school is expected to go online this fall, but only after a strategic campaign to recruit Hispanics and teenagers at risk of quitting or getting kicked out of public high schools.

Twenty percent of Utah high school seniors failed the state's exit exam, but achievement gaps between some groups of students narrowed.

The process for electing members of the Utah State Board of Education is not exactly democratic. It's a sort of hybrid system that appears democratic at the beginning and the end, but it has two odd, in-between steps that don't include voters.

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This weekend, thousands of Utahns will cease to be students and embrace life as college graduates. Commencement ceremonies are Friday at the University of Utah, Weber State University and Salt Lake Community College.

The Utah State Charter School Board will recommend that the Utah Board of Education approve seven new charter schools plus enrollment and grade additions for nine existing schools.

MIDVALE - Students jumped to their feet to root for classmates and bounced with anticipation to see who would win at a recent Copperview Elementary School assembly.

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Linda Melcher's 18-year-old daughter likes to write poetry, but her 14-year-old son doesn't like to write at all. "He doesn't have the patience," the Butler Middle School parent said.