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Senate debates SB3 education funding package; amendments add deaf/blind salary language and targeted counselor and WPU funding
Summary
Senate Bill 3 drew extended floor debate on Feb. 28 over teacher pay, a statutory fix for Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind and a Valentine amendment moving roughly $5.4 million to secondary counseling and increasing the WPU; the bill was taken up for final consideration under suspension of the rules.
Senate Bill 3, a major education funding package, prompted lengthy debate on the Utah Senate floor on Feb. 28 as senators weighed how to target a sizable funding increase. Sponsors described the measure as one of the session's most important bills because it seeks to improve pay and recruitment for teachers across the state.
Floor amendments included statutory language intended to address salary adequacy at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind, replacing prior intent language so the board would review district salary increases and in some years raise…
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