From Deseret News archives:
State right to ignore fed mandates on schools
The passage of SB162 appears to be prompted by a lack of trust and confidence lawmakers have in the State Board of Education overseeing the state's public schools and in carrying out lawmakers' legislative intent regarding policies such as teacher pay and vouchers.
SB162 brings to the surface an underlying problem: Utah's archaic education-governance structure. It has a layer of boards originally designed to give local control but has become a bureaucratic labyrinth where everyone and no one is responsible for carrying out the legislative intent that the State Board of Education is supposed to monitor. The board has the responsibility for supervision of public education but has demonstrated an inability in carrying out its legislatively mandated responsibilities. It has allowed programs to be administered by a bureaucratic layer of state and local school boards without the necessary oversight to assure programs are being carried out as intended by lawmakers.
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