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Utah House Rejects Bill Requiring Local School Boards to Adopt Parental‑involvement Policies
Summary
After an extended floor debate about local control and enforcement, the Utah House voted to send House Bill 110 back to the rules committee, rejecting a proposal that would have asked local school boards to adopt parental‑involvement policies.
The Utah House of Representatives on Feb. 2 debated House Bill 110, a measure sponsored by Representative Kelly C. Atkinson that would have directed local school boards to adopt policies encouraging parental involvement in students’ education. After more than an hour of discussion and questions on the floor, the chamber voted to send the bill to the rules committee without passage.
Atkinson, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure grew out of requests from local Parent Teacher Association leaders and aimed to make schools more ‘‘user friendly’’ to…
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