Nearly 1,000 charter school students from Logan to St. George descended upon the Utah Capitol Rotunda to advocate for school choice as a controversial bill makes its way through the Legislature.
SALT LAKE CITY — Nearly 1,000 charter school students from Logan to St. George descended upon the Utah Capitol Rotunda on Monday to rally and advocate for school choice.
Monday's rally was timed to coincide with National School Choice Week, which will feature more than 26,000 school choice events across all 50 states to raise equal and positive awareness of the traditional public, public charter, public magnet, private, online and home education options available for families, according to a release from the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools.
"The charter system helps us do that. You have choices that your parents have chosen that are making it better for you and your families," Cox said. "I just want you to know how much we love you, how much we love our charter schools and how much we are committed to making sure that we have the best education system in the world right here in Utah."
Gov. Spencer Cox, left, shakes hands with Royce Van Tassell, Utah Association of Public Charter Schools executive director, during a rally to support school choice, hosted by the Utah Association of Public Charter Schools, at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Monday. Nearly 1,000 charter school students from Logan to St. George on Monday descended upon the Utah Capitol Rotunda to rally and advocate for school choice as controversial bill makes its way through the legislature.
that if the board votes to oppose the bill, "it signals to the Legislature, whether it makes a difference or not, that the public education oversight body does not support sending public money to private schools, religious schools, schools that don't have the same oversight that public schools do."
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