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Utah House opens 2014 session; Speaker calls for education ‘renaissance’ and cleaner air
Summary
Speaker Rebecca Lockhart opened the Utah House 2014 General Session with a lengthy address urging renewed investment in teachers and classroom technology, new approaches to transportation funding and voluntary steps to improve air quality while warning against unfunded federal mandates.
Speaker Rebecca Lockhart opened the 2014 General Session of the Utah House of Representatives, framing the session as a time for ambition and change and urging the Legislature to pursue a ‘‘renewal’’ in education, transportation and air‑quality policy.
In remarks the House subsequently moved to print in the Journal, the Speaker told members the state should not settle for the status quo and called for “nothing less than an education renaissance,” including reinvesting in teachers, expanding professional development and integrating classroom technology such as…
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