Education Gets the Sandbox Treatment in Utah
Many education funds come with restrictions on how they can or cannot be spent. The programs mean well, but the money comes with heavy bureaucratic rules. They limit schools’ and teachers' creativity and inhibit innovation.
Special Needs Opportunity Scholarship Program Expanded in Utah
The bill continues to emphasize special needs students and that will always be a priority, but families no longer have to choose between sibling support and educational opportunities for their children.
HB 386 & SB 191: Enabling Innovation in Education
These bills create an educational environment that is more friendly to innovation by the people who are closest to the programs and students affected by regulatory restrictions.
SB 62: Special Needs Opportunity Scholarship Expansion
This bill expands eligibility for the Opportunity Scholarship to siblings of qualifying students.
Support the Hope Scholarship bill
As a sixth-grade teacher in a low-income school, I did what I could in the system to support parents, but the system has limits. Sometimes, the best fit for students wasn’t a public school at all.
HB 331: Hope Scholarship Program
This bill creates a scholarship fund for parents to use for their children's unique educational needs.