October 07, 2010 (Salt Lake Tribune) - A Utah Foundation report released last week showed that Utah students most often rank last on the National Assessment of Educational Progress when compared to states with similar ethnic makeups, parental education levels and poverty rates.
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October 07, 2010 (ABC 4) - According to a Utah Foundation Report released September of 2010, Utah was the lowest-achieving state in its demographic peer group, scoring well below what would be expected for a state with its demographic and economic profile.\r\n \r\n Utahs 8th grade students have lagged behind states like Wyoming, Minnesota, and New Jersey in subjects like Reading and Math.
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October 03, 2010 (Salt Lake Tribune) - A new study from the Utah Foundation that compares Utah with a half-dozen states having very similar demographics found that Utah has ranked last or next-to-last among its peers in reading, math and science tests since 1992. In fourth-grade reading, Utah also ranks below the national average.
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October 03, 2010 (Deseret News) - Last week the Utah Foundation released a sobering report showing how Utah students are underperforming when compared to students in states with similar demographics. Although we sometimes take comfort in the fact that Utahs students perform better than the national average on standardized tests, the national averages are not great and when compared to states with similar ethnic, economic and educational attainment, Utahs students are simply not matching up.
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September 30, 2010 (Daily Herald) - A public policy group report says Utah students lag other states with similar demographics in test scores for reading, math and science.\r\n \r\n The Deseret News says the Utah Foundation report is the first of its kind to compare Utah with peer states.
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September 29, 2010 (ksl.com) - New Utah research contradicts a common sentiment in our state about how were doing in education.\r\n \r\n The perception usually goes like this: Utah does pretty well despite spending the least per student in the country, and were still above average.\r\n \r\n Research from the respected Utah Foundation concludes this is not true.
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September 29, 2010 (Deseret News) - Utah students lag far behind in reading, math and science test scores, according to a new local study that compares Utah students with those in states that have similar demographics.\r\n \r\n The Utah Foundation, a public policy organization, conducted the research and authored the report, which is the first of its kind in examining how Utah compares to peer states, said Steve Kroes, foundation president.
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September 26, 2010 (ksl.com) - A recent KSL/Deseret News/Utah Foundation poll by Dan Jones and Associates focused on the priorities of Utah voters, asking what is most important to you about education, the economy, immigration, government spending and state\’s rights. The survey asked about solutions to these five issues and found some predictable and some interesting opinions.\r\n \r\n Kirk Jowers, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, Steve Kroes of Utah Foundation, and Randy Shumway, of Dan Jones and Associates, … Continued
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September 24, 2010 (ksl.com) - Core issues are crucial to voters in the race for Utah\’s next governor. At one of the Gary Herbert-Peter Corroon debates Thursday, a group of students held the candidates\’ feet to the fire on issues that also match a Utah Priorities poll for KSL and the Deseret News.
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September 24, 2010 (Deseret News) - The candidates for Utah governor made it clear in their first debate Thursday that they understand education is a top priority for voters.\r\n \r\n Gov. Gary Herbert and his Democratic challenger, Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon, used a taped debate for public TV station KUED to highlight their positions on education.
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September 20, 2010 (Deseret News) - The political tide that seems to be favoring Republicans across the nation appears to be sweeping Utah\’s U.S. Senate race toward a landslide.\r\n \r\n The latest Dan Jones & Associates poll for KSL and the Deseret News shows Republican Mike Lee in a commanding position, even if incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett had been on the ballot as an independent.
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September 20, 2010 (ksl.com) - The political tide that seems to be favoring Republicans across the nation appears to be sweeping Utah\’s U.S. Senate race toward a landslide.\r\n \r\n The latest Dan Jones & Associates poll for KSL and the Deseret News shows Republican Mike Lee in a commanding position, even if incumbent Sen. Bob Bennett had been on the ballot.
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September 16, 2010 (Deseret News) - A new poll released Wednesday gives GOP Gov. Gary Herbert a 21-point lead over his Democratic challenger, Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon.\r\n \r\n But the full impact of the continuing controversy over Herbert\’s campaign contributions and state contracts likely wasn\’t measured by the survey for the Utah Priorities Project, which includes the Deseret News and KSL-TV.
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September 15, 2010 (ksl.com) - Voters in Utah are starting to make up their minds about the candidates they want to see in office. Dan Jones and Associates has just released results of its latest poll on the governor\’s race.
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September 10, 2010 (Salt Lake Tribune) - Just about everyone has heard of studies that suggest the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.\r\n \r\n A new report by the Utah Foundation indicates that also appears to be the case in the Beehive State. Yet the study, which examined economic mobility among the state’s residents, also noted there is a lot more upward movement among different income groups than most would suspect.
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September 10, 2010 (KUER Radio) - A new study by the Utah Foundation shows more than half of Utah families were able to improve their circumstances from 1994 to 2007. Utah Foundation President Steve Kroes talked about the report with KUER\’s Dan Bammes.
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September 09, 2010 (Deseret News) - New research suggests that moving up the economic ladder is still a viable possibility in Utah.\r\n \r\n The news comes with a caveat, though: don\’t expect to rise more than a few rungs.\r\n \r\n The Utah Foundation report \”Moving Up the Economic Ladder: An Analysis of Economic Mobility in Utah,\” released Thursday, shows that, over time, a majority of people in the Beehive State experience an increase in income relative to other Utahns — although … Continued
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September 09, 2010 (utahpolicy.com) - The Utah Foundation has released a new study that documents \”the ability of Utahns to move up the economic ladder\” by examining \”tax returns from Utah households in 1994 and 2007 to measure income mobility.\” The study also looks at \”income inequality, finding Utah\’s gap between rich and poor has grown but is the smallest gap in the nation.\”
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August 27, 2010 (Deseret News) - Education funding can be measured in many different ways. One of the most popular among teachers and educators is to divide the amount spent by the number of pupils. By that measure, child-rich Utah virtually always finishes last in the nation.
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August 25, 2010 (Deseret News) - State government spending — especially for public education — is shrinking compared to what Utahns are earning, according to a new analysis by the Utah Foundation.\r\n \r\n The nonprofit research organization released its findings Tuesday as part of the Utah Priorities Project, an ongoing effort to identify the top issues of voters in this November\’s special gubernatorial election.
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July 26, 2010 (Deseret News) - Americans had saved less and less of their incomes since the 1980s, with savings of only 1.2 percent of disposable income in the third quarter of 2005 and also in the first quarter of 2008, according to research by the Utah Foundation.
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June 30, 2010 (KSL TV) - The Salt Lake Chamber has put together a group of economic experts to help advise business leaders and lawmakers to make good decisions to make Utah\’s economy even stronger.\r\n \r\n [Utah Foundation\’s Steve Kroes was appointed to the council.]
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May 15, 2010 (Standard-Examiner) - We have a message to those protesting teacher and staff cuts at the Davis School District: We sympathize with you but your complaint needs to be directed at the Utah State Legislature, which funds education.
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May 09, 2010 (USA Today) - Sen. Bob Bennett, a Republican from the reliably Republican state of Utah, looks like the model of an entrenched incumbent on paper. During 17 years in the Senate, he has won top ratings from the American Conservative Union and the National Rifle Association and has amassed a multimillion-dollar campaign war chest.
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May 07, 2010 (Deseret News) - Perhaps the most critical political decisions of 2010 will take place Saturday. And most Utahns have nothing to say about them. Both the state Republican and Democratic party conventions meet in the Salt Palace. The 3,500 GOP delegates and the 2,500 Democratic delegates will vote on candidates seeking state and federal partisan-elected offices.
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