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Senate advances amendments to school-turnaround program, emphasizes local ownership
Summary
The Senate approved amendments to the state’s school-turnaround program to focus on chronically low-performing schools, require local stakeholder plans and allow performance-based exit criteria while funding recruitment and retention initiatives; sponsors said a substitute would clarify remaining concerns.
The Senate advanced first-substitute legislation to revise Utah’s school-turnaround program, narrowing its scope to chronically low-performing schools and adding local control measures intended to increase school ownership of turnaround plans.
Sponsor Senator Milner told colleagues the amendment targets the lowest 3 percent of schools after two consecutive years of poor performance rather than…
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