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Utah STEM Action Center says $8M cut would eliminate core math and professional-learning programs
Summary
The Utah STEM Action Center told a legislative subcommittee that an $8 million ongoing cut under consideration would eliminate its three math programs and most professional learning: the agency said the reduction would affect 30% of staff and 80% of its budget, and staff pledged to propose alternate reductions.
SALT LAKE CITY ' The director of the Utah STEM Action Center told the Economic and Community Development Appropriations Subcommittee on Jan. 21 that a proposed $8,000,000 ongoing cut would eliminate core math instruction and professional-learning programs and sharply reduce the center's statewide work.
"If we take the full $8,000,000 as it exists right now, that would eliminate both the math and the professional learning programs which in total consists of 6 individual programs. That would be 30% of our team, and 80% of our budget," Tammy Goetz, director of…
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