Beginning this Fall, Salt Lake City high schools will start an hour later, thanks to a unanimous decision made by the Salt Lake City School Board.
According to a report from FOX 13, classes will begin at 8:45 a.m. and end at 3 p.m. Classes are currently starting at 7:45. The hope is that students will be able to get more sleep before class.
Melissa Ford, the Salt Lake City School Board President, said she believes the benefits will outweigh her concerns of the schedule change interfering with student’s other responsibilities, such as jobs, siblings or after school activities.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the school board has been studying this change for over a year. The Logan City School District is the only other district in northern Utah with a start time after 8 a.m.
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H.B. 338 would allow 16- and 17-year-old students to vote in local school board elections. It was developed by Arundhati Oommen, a junior at West Valley High School who serves as the student representative on the Salt Lake City School Board.
Oomen was frustrated that students like her don’t have a voice in local school board elections. Her bill, which Rep. Joel Briscoe is sponsoring, would allow school districts the option of letting students like like Oommen participate in board elections
Rep. Dan Johnson said he’s impressed with her civil engagement.
And she s not an activist. She s just a really bright, hard working kid that really enjoys civic engagement,” said Johnson.
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Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, discusses amendments to SB107 in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The language in Weiler’s bill originally took aim at the Salt Lake City School District as the only district that had not offered an in-person learning option at the time. The language now focuses on requirements surrounding “Test to Stay” protocols and thresholds.
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SALT LAKE CITY A bill originally seen as a way to push the Salt Lake City School District into returning all students to the classroom is now focusing on testing for students after its sponsor made major changes Friday.
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SALT LAKE CITY A bill originally seen as a way to push the Salt Lake City School District into returning all students to the classroom is now focusing on testing for students after its sponsor made major changes Friday.
The language of SB107, sponsored by Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, was substantially altered to focus instead on requirements surrounding Test to Stay protocols and thresholds.
The bill would require the Utah Department of Health to provide support to schools that initiate widespread COVID-19 testing under the Test to Stay program. It also establishes a 2% case threshold, up from 1% of the school population when schools must take steps to mitigate further spread of the virus, which often includes shifting to online learning.
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