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Letter: Herbert's IT Pathways Program skips racially diverse school districts. Curious.

Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Adam Dunn, Spanish Fork developed his Jaxi the Robot videogame as a way to teach kids to code. His game has earned him $20,000 as the winner of the Utah Game Wars competition at Comic Con, at the Salt Palace, Friday, September 5, 2014

Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Adam Dunn, Spanish Fork developed his Jaxi the Robot videogame as a way to teach kids to code. His game has earned him $20,000 as the winner of the Utah Game Wars competition at Comic Con, at the Salt Palace, Friday, September 5, 2014

By  Darrell Prows | The Public Forum
 | March 1, 2018, 7:09 a.m.

So now lily-white, Mormon high school boys can be joined by lily-white Mormon high school girls in getting the best tech education in the state. In Utah things literally do not get any more diverse than that.

The five school districts chosen for the rollout of the Gary Herbert IT Pathways Program (Alpine, Nebo, Provo, Canyons and Davis) are the five largest, whitest, predominantly Mormon school districts in the state. And the tech jobs being trained for are said to average pay of $81,000 per year.

Every one of the large, racially and economically diverse school districts on the Wasatch Front missed the cutoff for the rollout of a program promising an advanced pathway to a prosperous future. Coincidence?

Darrell Prows, Murray

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