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State Board staff outline implementation plan after legislature passes 105 education bills
Summary
Utah State Board of Education staff told members they tracked about 210 education-related bills this session and that 105 passed; staff previewed rulemaking, program implementation and fiscal tracking and agreed to deliver detailed trackers and funding/funding-status information before April committee meetings.
Elise Newey, deputy superintendent of policy, told the Utah State Board of Education that staff tracked about 210 education-related bills this year and that 105 of those passed, which she described as a roughly 50% passage rate. “We had 210 bills that were introduced that we were tracking,” Newey said, and staff will provide more detailed analysis in April.
Newey highlighted several pieces of legislation that staff plan to implement or monitor, including SB 34, which replaces the term “district” with “LEA” in reintegration-plan language to explicitly include charter schools; changes to suicide-prevention funding allocation that remove a statutory compliance burden from USBE when appropriation is insufficient; and a shift in a USDB safety-assessment…
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