The Utah State Charter School Board held a special meeting on August 22, 2022. The primary agenda item was addressing the warning status of Vanguard Academy charter school.
Following the State Charter School Board’s unprecedented vote last night to replace the Board of Directors, School Director and Business Administrator at Vanguard Academy, Royce Van Tassel, executive director of the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools, issued the following statement.
A man who was charged with a hate crime earlier this month has been released from Salt Lake County jail, and charges against him have been dismissed. Hayden Perry Stowell, was arrested Saturday August 13 and was released Monday in what appears to be a case of mistaken identity.
The Davis County Cooperative Society unequivocally condemns any disrespectful slurs, vandalism, acts of violence or any other means of unlawful coercion because an individual's or a group's beliefs differ from our own.
Salt Lake Community College was recently found to have discriminated against one of their students because she was pregnant.
The 2022 on-time high school graduation rate for DCCS members was 93.18% which continues to surpass the rates of Utah and the US.
With rising inflation, it seems the cost of groceries is higher than ever before, making a discussion about eliminating the sales tax on groceries much more relevant.
A recent Fox 13 news article by Adam Herbets is targeting Vanguard Academy, a high performing public charter school serving a population of 82% first generation college students
We’re talking about 100 years of bigotry and hatred displayed once again by individuals in the public school system who seek to reinforce “otherisms” and maintain the established ruling class against a second-class citizenry.
Vanguard Academy once again appeared before the Utah State Charter Board (USCB) to address their progress on “corrective actions” outlined when they were placed on warning status in June 2021.