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Senate advances education package, adopts reporting and open‑enrollment measures
Summary
The Utah Senate moved a set of education bills forward, amending and approving measures on district accountability reports and open enrollment. Lawmakers debated timing of test reporting, whether school‑by‑school comparisons are fair, and transportation protections for transfers.
The Utah State Senate on the morning calendar amended and approved several bills in an education package aimed at increasing school accountability and expanding parental choice.
Senators debated House Bill 158, which requires standardized test data reporting, and accepted an amendment from Senator Steele to change the district reporting deadline from “August 1” to “November 1,” citing timing of results. Steele noted that ACT and AP score returns often arrive later in the year and said the August 1 date was “an impossibility.” The…
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