We'll go over what we know about the precautions that Utah high school district and coaches will take to assure safety at the games. Our discussion with Deseret News reporter Amy Donaldson continues. 

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The UHSAA board of trustees met yesterday to make the call: high school sports will be back this fall. But we've got some questions. What sports will be back? Will fans be allowed to attend? And what sort of protections will be in place for athletes and coaches? KSL Newsradio reporter Mary Richards has been on the story this morning. We'll hear her report. Then we'll dive deeper into this - families from out of state are flooding the phones of local schools and coaches asking if they can transfer their kids to a school here to play. We talked to Amy Donaldson, who has the details. 

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The president of Utah's largest teachers' union, Heidi Matthews, joins us to discuss her association's call to delay in-person classes in Utah's public schools. 

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Utah's largest teacher's union wants to delay resuming in-person classes until COVID-19 cases go down. So, we begin the show with two important questions: What do teachers do if schools don't delay reopen dates? AND were teachers left out of the back-to-school planning?

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We ask parents to call and tell us WHY they've chosen the path they've chosen for their children as far as returning to school for the 2020-2021 school year.

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Don't want to send your children back to school? We dive into another option for parents who don't want to send their kids back to school: homeschooling. Connor Boyack, with the Libertas Institute, is a big advocate of it and is frustrated that it's so expensive. He's planning on pushing legislation to lower costs. 

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Have you heard of "pandemic pods?" How about "microschools?" The NY Times says it's the new way that parents could be solving the education crisis, by teaming up with other parents in the neighborhood to teach their kids. KSL Newsradio anchor/reporter Todd Fooks is testing something similar. We'll learn more about his experience. 

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School employees, we hear you! We were flooded with questions yesterday about who gets paid if you have to stay home from work if you contract COVID-19.  In search of answers, we turn to Ben Horsley of Granite School District. 

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Utah Highway Patrol is pulling over a record number of drivers doing 100+ miles an hour. Is there a reason why people are in such a hurry? Is the pandemic to blame? 

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If you weren't paying attention it's time to start. We're now at less than a hundred days to the Presidential election. Are President Trump's palms starting to sweat? Joe Biden is leading in some key battleground states--ones that Trump won in 2016. Nathaniel Rakich, elections analyst for FiveThirtyEight, joins to tell us whether or not Biden's lead is as big as it seems.