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Senate approves omnibus education funding package after floor amendments
Summary
The Utah Senate passed a first-substitute omnibus education funding bill that bundles 12 education measures, including teacher pay increases, early-childhood pilots and targeted math/science pay; floor amendments added and removed programs before a final 21–7 roll-call approval under suspension of rules.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate passed a wide-ranging education funding and policy package on March 4, 2008, approving the first substitute to Senate Bill 2, an omnibus measure that combines a dozen education bills into one appropriation and policy vehicle.
Senator John Stevenson, the bill sponsor, described the package as "the much heralded omnibus education funding package," saying it rolls together measures ranging from extended-year pay for special-education teachers and a family-centered pre-K pilot to $1,700 salary adjustments for qualifying classroom teachers. "It appropriates a total of $2.5 billion in state funding to support the minimum school program," Stevenson said on the floor.
The bill funds a variety of priorities: a $1,700 pay adjustment for qualifying teachers (about $60…
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