The state school board voted early Monday to stand against the voucher bill currently rushing through the Utah Legislature that would allow students to use public funding to attend private schools.
The state’s top elected education leaders on
called the “Utah Fits All Scholarship” that would allow students to use public money to attend private schools or be home-schooled. It is touted as a way to give parents and kids more choice in education. She also is concerned that it only offers choices to those in the Wasatch Front, where most of the private schools in the state sit. Those in rural areas, like her district in southern Utah, have fewer options.
She also believes the funding is unfair. Currently, the state allocates about $4,000 per student in a public school under the weighted pupil unit, or WPU . The voucher bill would give students an $8,000 scholarship to attend a private school or do home schooling.
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