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House passes bill shifting student education-plan decisions to local school boards after amendment battle
Summary
The House passed House Bill 262 on Feb. 25, 2002, moving decision-making about Student Education Plans/SEOP conferences to locally elected school boards, after a prolonged floor debate and a failed amendment that would have required at least one annual conference per student. The final vote was 45–23; the bill was referred to the Senate.
The Utah House of Representatives narrowly approved House Bill 262 on Feb. 25, 2002, a measure that shifts authority over Student Education Plans (SEP) and Student Education Occupation Plans (SEOP) from the State Board of Education to locally elected school boards and makes some assessment provisions optional.
Representative Newbold, the bill sponsor, told the House that districts estimate counselors spend about $20,000,000 worth of time implementing counseling and planning activities and that the state provided roughly $7,400,000 in block grant funding last year. "In other words, we're paying approximately 37¢ for every dollar that the schools are expending," Newbold…
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