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Senate rejects bill to split statewide online education program; debate centers on scholarship access and potential "double dipping"
Summary
Senators voted down Senate Bill 137 after floor debate over whether bifurcating the statewide online education program would allow scholarship recipients to use public online courses to fully replace other schooling and thus "double dip."
The Utah Senate voted down Senate Bill 137 on Tuesday after a floor debate about how the bill would affect students receiving state education scholarships.
Sponsor Senator Cullimore presented the bill as a technical separation: it would bifurcate the statewide online education program so public-school students and private/homeschool/scholarship students would be managed under separate program administration. "It's simply bifurcating the programs," Senator Cullimore said in his presentation, adding it does not add funding and that separate line items already exist.
During floor debate, Senator Sahara Weiler…
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