Comments about ‘Utah Legislature winds down’

Parents for choice brought us the voucher bill. Now they want charter funding expanded while other public schools get serious cuts. They get their power through an email list of ten thousand followers. It sounds like a secret combination to benefit them at the the expense of everyone else. I think I read about such secret societies before. I wonder if that email list has any names in common with the Eagle Forum?

I don't have, and won't have children in private or voucher schools. But I must say, the hysteria of the anti-choice crowd reminds me of the Prop 8 protesters in CA. What threat is it to you if a parent pulls his child out of the public school system? Even school boards admit that they will end up with higher per-pupil budgets - which is what the teachers union demands year after year. You get what you want, they get what they want - the problem is that you anti-choice folks are determined to be the only side that gets what it wants. Isn't that mature? (the answer is no, by the way)

Good riddance, these clowns have done enough damage for this year.

Just wait for the multiple Special Sessions to deal with further cuts or where to put extra money. I know I am dreaming about the extra money, but the legislature seems to be dreaming everyday of the session!

This article is missing important information about HB 2 and funding charter growth. Senator Morgan falsely claimed that charter schools were getting a better deal than traditional public schools, but in reality, because of Senator Stephenson's amendments to HB 2, charter schools are now being funded at the same level as traditional public schools, taking the same amount of cuts as everyone else.

Before Senator Stephenson's changes, charter schools were taking a bigger cut than traditional public schools despite the fact that charter schools are public schools, too.

Well, certainly nothing in the way of good PR for the state of Utah.

Utah is and will remain a little backwater state that will continue to be a 'flyover".

This has been one long exercise in failure. The legislature continues to invade areas of our lives that it has no business being involved in. As a result, the government's sole purpose of protecting us from harm and foreign invasion is ignored and our tax dollars are wasted.

"Utah is and will remain a little backwater state that will continue to be a 'flyover"."
You say that like it's a bad thing.

Go back and see who backed the caucuses to get Valentine elected. If I am not mistaken Valentine's wife is a part owner or on the board of a charter school. But, I am sure that does not cloud his judgment. How many others on the hill have their hands in the charter school scam, that would be interesting to know.

move then, moron. tired of the pathetic and useless whining. just go away.