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Key developments at special legislative session

Published: Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007 12:17 a.m. MDT
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• Lawmakers decided Salt Lake County no longer has a right to halt a vote on a proposed split of the Jordan School District.

• A coalition of west-side cities and residents plans to file a lawsuit demanding a right to vote on the Jordan split.

• Legislators postponed resolving questions about equalizing school-construction funds and instead called for a task force to study the issue.

• Lawmakers passed a bill allowing a public vote on a school-district split if municipalities or counties representing 80 percent of the proposed new district approve.

• Salt Lake County still has the right to block a proposed split of the Granite School District, since the county represents more than half the proposed new district.

• Legislators passed a bill ensuring that Murray School District wouldn't automatically take over Cottonwood High School.

• Lawmakers approved another bill that allows residents of Draper's SunCrest community to keep their children in Alpine schools if the Jordan District splits.

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• The bill also lets students slated to attend Cottonwood High remain in that school's boundary for six years if the Granite District splits.

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