Parents share kids’ experience with racism at hearing on teaching it in Utah classrooms

Board of Education is required by law to engage in public discussion before the new rules take effect.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Linda Isom talks about the struggles her adopted children have faced, during a public hearing on the Utah State Board's recent rules for teaching about racism in the K-12 classroom at the State Board of Education in Salt Lake City, on Thursday, July 22, 2021.

Parents share kids’ experience with racism at hearing on teaching it in Utah classrooms

Board of Education is required by law to engage in public discussion before the new rules take effect.

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