Trusting Parents with Education
Imagine living in Maine which allows families to use government money to choose a school. You’re excited because you and your spouse want to send your children to the school where you both attended. But when you apply for the...
Best of Utah’s 2022 Legislative Session
These bills represent steps Libertas is taking in the realms of technological innovation, privacy, education, occupational licensing, local government, and criminal justice.
Education Gets the Sandbox Treatment in Utah
Many education funds come with restrictions on how they can or cannot be spent. The programs mean well, but the money comes with heavy bureaucratic rules. They limit schools’ and teachers' creativity and inhibit innovation.
Special Needs Opportunity Scholarship Program Expanded in Utah
The bill continues to emphasize special needs students and that will always be a priority, but families no longer have to choose between sibling support and educational opportunities for their children.
HB 386 & SB 191: Enabling Innovation in Education
These bills create an educational environment that is more friendly to innovation by the people who are closest to the programs and students affected by regulatory restrictions.
SB 62: Special Needs Opportunity Scholarship Expansion
This bill expands eligibility for the Opportunity Scholarship to siblings of qualifying students.
Support the Hope Scholarship bill
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.
HB 331: Hope Scholarship Program
This bill creates a scholarship fund for parents to use for their children's unique educational needs.
School Attendance Reforms Put Parents Back in the Driver’s Seat
These bills not only help protect parental rights (as dictated in Utah’s Constitution), but they also provide important support to Utah’s children. Routines and normalcy have been disrupted and it would be wise to give families...
COVID has changed education forever. Let’s embrace the new direction.
There are a few solutions schools should pursue in aiming to be more flexible.