Parents Plead with School Board to Offer Vouchers
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(KCPW News) Today the Utah State Board of Education received a stack of more than four-thousand names of parents eager to receive school vouchers for their children.Single mother Karina Pareja pleaded tearfully with Board Chair Kim Burningham to make vouchers available so her special-needs children could attend private schools.
Burningham defended the board's decision NOT to implement vouchers. He says the board has also received input from parents who oppose vouchers, including the 130-thousand people who signed a petition that landed vouchers on November's ballot.
The Utah Attorney General has informed the State Board of Education it must create a voucher program immediately due to a second measure passed by the Utah Legislature.
Burningham and others on the State Board of Education believe that second bill was not meant to stand alone and should be on hold until the public votes on the November referendum.
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1. Jan Gates said:
Does Kim Burningham understand that many, in fact thousands of the names that were the 130,000 list were people like me that welcome the opportunity to have this on the ballot so we can vote for it.
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