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House approves $11 million pilot to extend math and science teacher contracts

Utah House of Representatives · January 31, 2008
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Summary

House Bill 270 passed the Utah House to create Utah Science, Technology and Research Initiative Centers that use grants to extend math and science teachers from 9 to 11 months. Sponsor cited an $11,000,000 fiscal note and said the program is intended as a pilot, not an immediate statewide rollout; the measure passed unanimously and heads to the Senate.

Representative Ron Bigelow presented House Bill 270 as one of the session's major funding proposals, explaining the bill's purpose is to establish USTAR-linked centers in a number of high schools. "The purpose of the bill is to establish in a number of high schools a program whereby a math or science teacher will move…

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