A crowd of 60 or 70 people turned out to protest outside the Granite Education Center prior to the district’s board meeting on October 7th. Despite vociferous opposition from the Morningside and Eastwood communities, the PAC presented essentially the same plan they had at the Olympus and Skyline open houses in late September. Significantly, no future ‘home’ for the ALC program was announced. In a departure from the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Granite Parents Demand Accountability: District Pays Executives in Top Percentiles While Closing High-Performing Schools to “Save Money” Salt Lake City, UT — September 24, 2025 — Granite School District is moving forward with a recommendation to close two of its highest-performing elementary schools, Morningside and Eastwood, citing cost savings as the justification. Parents and community members are raising alarm, arguing that the closures are based...

Granite School District’s Area 5 Study drew over 1,000 public comments before the PAC’s recommendations were even announced. Parents and community members wrote pages of testimony explaining what their schools mean, how programs are working, and what the consequences of closure would be. Over 190 of the comments were from Morningside parents — the second largest concentration of feedback in the entire survey. Their message was clear: Morningside is not a...

Parents clapped when Steve Hogan confirmed that the district would not be consolidating the ALC programs at Morningside and Woodstock. But there were hours of questions for Steve Hogan and Superintendent Horsley during the two public meetings on September 22nd and 23rd at Olympus High and Skyline. The PAC and district showed their true colors, leaving many parents not just with unanswered questions, but with less confidence in...