Each year, roughly 100,000 students are expelled from public high schools, with reasons ranging from simply not following directions to as severe as being caught with a weapon on schoolgrounds. But most of these students are forgotten from the school district. But they still are entitled to an education,...

The Salt Lake City School District is on its fifth superintendent in six years. With the announcement that Dr. Elizabeth Grant will be the new superintendent, staff around the district are hoping the Salt Lake School Board has finally gotten it right. Unlike her two predecessors, Grant has extensive...

Next year, Highland’s schedule will face a change, making opportunities to sleep in less frequent. The Salt Lake City School District is eliminating asynchronous days, also known as C-days. C-days were first put in place when Highland went online in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, because at that...

Planning and decorating for school dances, themes for spirit week, leading and organizing school assemblies, leading the black hole. Highland’s Student Body Officers, or SBOs for short, put in a lot of work behind the scenes to make Highland a better place. They are the ones who make Highland the family...

Bump, set, spike it: that’s the way we like it.  Highland students can now look forward to hearing volleyball cheers from a new team in the west gym this upcoming 2024 spring sports season.  The Utah High School Activities Association recently approved boys volleyball as a new spring sport...