Board adopts student-travel policy; performing-arts teachers ask administrators to relax a one-student-per-bed memorandum rule

The Granite School District Board of Education approved Article 8A18, the district’s student-travel policy, as a second and final reading on Oct. 7. The vote followed public comment from performing-arts teachers who urged the district to allow flexibility in administrative travel guidance — specifically the memorandum that implements the policy — to reduce costs and maintain student participation.

Leah Tarrant, a Taylorsville High School choir teacher speaking for a group of performing-arts teachers and booster parents, said the current administrative memorandum’s guidance that “student accommodations shall include 1 student per bed” has reduced hotel availability, increased travel time and raised per‑student costs to the point that some trips became infeasible. “A $200 decrease in cost…