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Utah Senate advances bill to let funding "follow" students when districts decline in-person classes
Summary
The Utah Senate voted to advance Senate Bill 107, which would allow state education funding to move with students who leave districts that do not offer in-person instruction; the measure passed a third-reading motion 22–6 after extended debate over public health, local control and whether funds could flow to private schools.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate on day three moved ahead with a bill intended to give parents more options for K–6 in-person instruction during the pandemic, approving a motion to read Senate Bill 107 for a third time by a 22–6 margin.
Senator Jon Weiler, the bill sponsor, told colleagues the measure would allow “funding to travel with a public education student if they leave an LEA that does not offer in-person learning,” including a mechanism he described as sending “one half of the WPU” for the second half of the school year to a receiving public school and, in limited circumstances, up to three WPUs to a private school to offset tuition costs.
“Parents have to work to support their children,” Weiler said in…
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