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Committee recommends board allow San Juan and Tooele to treat border students as Utah residents and seek legal opinion
Summary
After lengthy testimony from San Juan and Tooele staff, the finance committee recommended the full board endorse a variance allowing those districts to continue coding some Navajo Nation border students as Utah residents for funding counts and asked the assistant attorneys general for a legal opinion. The committee passed the motion unanimously.
The finance committee voted unanimously to recommend that the full Utah State Board of Education consider a variance permitting San Juan and Tooele school districts to continue coding some students who live on or very near the Utah–Arizona border (many on Navajo Nation land) as Utah residents for funding purposes, and the committee asked for a legal opinion from the assistant attorney generals to accompany the board discussion.
Background and testimony: Aaron Brough, director of data and statistics, summarized the technical issue: since 2020 LEAs have been required to submit student addresses and geocodes; the new geocode validation showed many students whose registration forms list Utah PO boxes or ZIP codes but whose geocoded location is just across the state line in Arizona. "We found in particular in San Juan and in Tooele School District that there were…
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