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Utah House advances broad education package, approving 220‑day pilot, class‑size funding and discipline reforms
Summary
The House approved a package of education measures Feb. 1, 1994, including a pilot for a 220‑day school year, $11,053,000 for class‑size reduction in grades K–3, and a model‑policy framework for student discipline. Sponsors said the bills implement the state strategic plan for education; several provisions were amended on the floor.
The Utah House of Representatives on Feb. 1 approved a cluster of education measures aimed at expanding instructional time, reducing early‑grade class sizes and giving districts clearer authority to craft discipline policies.
Representative Kevin S. Garn, the package sponsor, told colleagues the bills are intended to carry forward the Utah Strategic Planning Act for Educational Excellence and to put the state on a path to ‘‘create and articulate a clear vision of what [the] system can and must become.’’ He described a 220‑day pilot proposed under House Bill 102 as an experimental program that would ‘‘provide for a 30% increase in time for mathematics, technology, science, language and communications and social studies’’ and said the measure is meant to be phased in carefully.
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