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Board hears legislative funding update, flags cuts to teaching-and-learning program
Summary
Business administrator Leon Wilcox told the board the current legislative package would reduce several education funding streams, including a proposed $18.3 million statewide cut to the DTL program (Canyons’ share ~ $850,000), changes to the educator salary adjustment indexing and smaller cuts to student health services—outcomes remain uncertain until session end.
Leon Wilcox, Canyons School District’s business administrator, told trustees on March 3 that several bills moving through the Legislature would change how the district receives state education funds and could reduce discretionary supports the district counts on.
"They are gonna pull back the whole $18,300,000 of DTL," Wilcox said, referring to the statewide teaching-and-learning line; "our share is about $850,000." He added that the district is watching a proposed change to the educator salary adjustment…
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