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Senate approves Minimum School Program adjustments, delaying some increases and cutting others
Summary
Lawmakers passed Senate Bill 3 after extended debate over $1.9% in reductions to the 2002 education appropriation and changes to how smaller line items are administered. Senators debated impacts on charter schools, math and science initiatives and districts that would be hit twice by the changes.
Salt Lake City — The Utah Senate passed amendments to the Minimum School Program Wednesday that trim the education budget and alter how some funds will be distributed to districts.
Senator Mary Stevenson, presenting Senate Bill 3, told the chamber the act ‘‘cuts 1.9% from the 02/2002 original appropriation total'' and shifts a portion of reductions into flexible block grants that local districts can allocate. “We have accomplished that…
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