The state’s largest teachers union has filed suit to challenge Utah’s newly launched voucher program that siphons more than $82 million from public schools.
A packed room listens in as Rep. Candice Pierucci, R-Riverton, sponsor of HB215, speaks on the voucher bill in committee at the Utah Capitol on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023.
announced it would be suing in a news conference Wednesday morning — though the organization indicated as soon as the voucher bill passed during the 2023 legislative session that this would be coming. “This lawsuit is necessary to ensure that public funds remain in public schools, where they can do the most good for all our students,” said UEA President Renée Pinkney in a prepared statement.is a taxpayer-funded program that allows 10,000 students to attend private school or be home-schooled and be granted public funds in the form of a scholarship to do so.Utah Fits All vouchers all awarded. Here’s how families can spend $8k for next school year.
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