By Tiffany Erickson and Jennifer Toomer-Cook Deseret Morning News Utah schools basically have added another Tooele School District to their rolls. This fall, enrollment jumped by 12,880 students statewide, with more than half of those children -- just under 6,800 -- choosing charter schools.

By Jennifer Toomer-Cook Deseret Morning News Educators can't use an anti-voucher workshop at the Utah Education Association's annual convention next week as credit toward renewing their licenses, the State Office of Education determined Tuesday.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Patti Harrington has named Larry Shumway as associate state superintendent over law, legislation and educational services, replacing Ray Timothy, who was recently named superintendent of the Park City School District.

By Erin Stewart Deseret Morning News Utah Board of Education leaders took their first crack Wednesday at hammering out rules for implementing Utah's new $9.2 million private school voucher law -- the most wide-ranging and expensive of its kind in the country.

By Jennifer Toomer-Cook Deseret Morning News Thousands of high school students are eligible for a voucher to help them prepare for the Utah Basic Skills Competency test and, so far, about 10 private tutoring businesses have applied to offer that aid.