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Bill Details: SB 104: EDUCATION ELECTIONS AND REPORTING AMENDMENTS
Sponsor: Sen. Al Jackson, Co-Sponsor:
Bill Summary:
8 General Description:
9 This bill amends provisions of the Election Code to make candidates for, and members
10 of, the State Board of Education and local school boards subject to partisan election and
11 modifies the reporting requirements of state school board office candidates and
12 officeholders.
13 Highlighted Provisions:
14 This bill:
15 ▸ provides that members of the State Board of Education and local school boards are
16 elected through partisan election;
17 ▸ modifies the reporting requirements of state school board office candidates and
18 officeholders;
19 ▸ removes the nominating committee, and related provisions, for selecting candidates
20 to run for the State Board of Education; and
21 ▸ makes technical changes.
22 Money Appropriated in this Bill:
23 None
24 Other Special Clauses:
25 None
26 Utah Code Sections Affected:
27 AMENDS:
Reviewer Name: Oak Norton, Rating: Strongly Support
Reviewer Comments:
This bill represents the best way to bring accountability to school boards which do not currently represent taxpayers and the representative public for the areas they are elected from.
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Past Comments
Comment by Brad Caldwell (February 19, 2015 at 3:46 pm)
Rating: Strongly Oppose
partisan politics have no place in public education.
Comment by Randall Lund (February 25, 2015 at 5:56 pm)
Rating: Strongly Support
“Politics has no place in public education,” says the party with a stranglehold on educational policy. Politics is how like minded people get together to affect public policy. The most important public policy we make is in education, where our children’s minds are shaped, where we spend the most money, where tomorrow’s culture is made.