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House OKs bill requiring parental notice before moving special-education students between schools
Summary
HB 143 requires local education agencies to provide parents and affected special-education students an opportunity to comment before implementing boundary changes that move contained-class students; lawmakers said it fills a code gap and passed the House 71-1.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House on Jan. 29 approved House Bill 143, extending notification and participation rights to parents of special-education students when school boundary changes would move a student in a contained classroom to another school.
Representative Karen Peterson, sponsor, said the bill arose from parent concerns…
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