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Utah House circles 'Highly Impacted Schools' bill after extended debate over funding formula
Summary
After hours of debate over eligibility criteria and whether funding should be handled through the weighted pupil unit, the Utah House voted to 'circle' House Bill 65 (Highly Impacted Schools) for further study. Lawmakers clashed over use of 'number and percentage' in the funding formula and whether ethnic-minority measures should be criteria.
The Utah House of Representatives on Jan. 31 placed House Bill 65, the 'Highly Impacted Schools' measure, into the committee 'circle' after extended floor debate over how the program identifies and funds struggling schools.
Sponsor Representative Shirley Jensen, who presented the bill and data from 40 pilot schools, said the program had shown strong results and needed codification into the minimum school program. "In the first term of school, 80 percent of the students participating in the academic coaching program are no longer failing," she said, describing the program's academic-coach intervention as a key success.
Opponents pressed whether the bill's funding formula should be…
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