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The Sutherland Institute’s philosophy is simple: We believe that parents are responsible for their childrens' education and that the state role in education is primarily as a support to parents. We also believe that educational freedom is a necessary ingredient in providing the best education possible for each individual student.

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Sutherland Urges Legislature to Simplify Name-Removal Process for Citizen Petitions

Sutherland Institute has called on the Utah State Legislature to make it easier for citizens to have their names removed from initiative petitions.

Sutherland Institute continues to support meaningful ethics reform. As detailed in the Institute’s recently-published analysis of the Utahns for Ethical Government (UEG) proposal, however, the “independent ethics commission” and legislative ethics code proposed by UEG is definitely not the way to undertake ethics reform. It is, in fact, dangerous.

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