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Committee advances RS 31903 to explore allowing student-directed funds to flow to parents with district agreement
Summary
After a print hearing, the Senate Education Committee voted to move RS 31903 forward. Supporters said the proposal would let parents and districts create individualized education plans and allow designated funds to flow to parents with district agreement; opponents called it a voucher-like program.
The Senate Education Committee voted to move RS 31903 forward after a print hearing that introduced changes to the state''s self-directed learner provisions.
Senator Dave Lent, who represents District 33 (Idaho Falls), described the bill as extending the state''s self-directed learner framework to allow parents, working with local districts, to create an individual education plan for a student and to receive funds designated for that student under an agreement with district leadership. "What it does is it allows the parent now to receive funds that are designated for that…
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