A bill unanimously endorsed by the Senate Education Committee will add value over time to the $6,000 teacher supplement granted to licensed educators under the Utah Fits All Scholarship bill.
SALT LAKE CITY — A bill unanimously endorsed by the Senate Education Committee Friday will add value over time to the $6,000 teacher supplement granted to licensed educators under the Utah Fits All Scholarship bill., sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Evan Vickers, R-Cedar City, will index the $6,000 supplement to the same percentage that lawmakers increased the value of the weighted pupil unit the previous fiscal year. The WPU is the basic building block of public education funding in Utah.
Jay Blain, director of policy and research for the Utah Education Association, urged the committee to give HB183 a favorable recommendation. The bill also eliminated language that said any teacher who received a negative evaluation would be ineligible for the supplement. HB183 amends that language to say an educator would have to receive three consecutive unsatisfactory evaluations to lose the supplement.
Vickers said the bill's effects will be profound "especially on our teachers that are working so hard in the education community.", which created a state-funded scholarship program allowing eligible parents to use $8,000 for private school, home schooling or other private educational options.
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