I recently received an email from an organization called “Parents for Alpine School District” painting school board candidate, Dr. Maynard Olsen in a negative light. I found no public record of this “organization” or any of its members. It comes as no surprise that such anonymous ...

Dear Provo City Parents,As a resident of one of the greatest cities in the nation, are you comfortable sending your children or grandchildren to a school whose seismic codes are extremely poor? Where the roof beams are made of concrete and rest on unreinforced cement block walls?To keep your ...

Obesity and Halloween do not mix at all. So my question is why do they hand out candy? Why don't they give out apples or something that can help expand your health?But the answer to the question is people used to give apples with razor blades inside. That could be a problem. It would be great ...

A plea to motorists: Our children and school bus professionals are moving targets.My son served as a school crossing guard with one of the local school districts during the 2003-2004 school year. After serving as an LDS Service Missionary at the Dan Peterson School for special needs children in ...

As a member of the Provo School Bond Facilities Advisory Committee, I have been very fortunate to be deeply involved in this school bond process for the last 18 months. I am not an employee nor am I an elected official of the Provo City School District. I am simply a concerned parent who was ...

Provo School District has made a case for its bond based on the admittedly poor condition of several of its schools. But it has not made a case that those schools are needed in their present locations based on demographic factors — the number and distribution of students in various ...