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Senate advances education strategic plan and related funding bills after floor debate
Summary
The Utah Senate debated and moved forward a package of education measures on Feb. 19, 1992, including statutory strategic planning (HB 158), class-size reduction funding (HB 245), and the Educational Technology Initiative (HB 252). Lawmakers adopted amendments clarifying task force membership, oversight and funding intent and placed multiple measures on the third-reading calendar.
The Utah Senate on Feb. 19 took up a coordinated slate of education measures, adopting amendments to a statutory strategic-planning bill and advancing funding bills for class-size reduction and educational technology.
Senators discussed House Bill 158, the state’s strategic-planning vehicle for public education, for more than an hour before adopting a set of amendments that clarified task-force membership, quorum rules and reporting duties. Proponents said the bill institutionalizes work the Legislature has already commissioned and would give the strategic plan statutory standing; opponents warned that inserting detailed “action plan” items into the statute risks binding future…
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