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Senate adopts conference report on public education budget; charterscholarship compromises kept testing funds
Summary
The Utah Senate adopted the conference committee report on Second Substitute Senate Bill 2, a package of minimum school program and public education budget amendments that preserves $1.5 million for testing, sets a charter-student authorization cap for 2012–13 at 6,000, and delays changes to local replacement funding after compromise with the governor.
The Utah Senate on March 11 adopted the conference committee report for Second Substitute Senate Bill 2, a package of changes to the minimum school program and related public education budget provisions negotiated between House and Senate conferees and the governor’s office. Senator Howard Stevenson, sponsor of the Senate bill, presented the conference committee report and outlined the key compromises reached.
Stevenson said the final package removed the Senate’s proposed phase-out of local replacement funding and an alternative formula for charter funding, instead agreeing to a…
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