Education

The legislation requires annual audits of individual families’ scholarship accounts, a suspension process for those who misuse scholarship funds, and academic accountability to parents and students.

Answers to questions such as: Why do we need this program? Are vouchers and education savings accounts the same thing? Didn’t Utah vote on this in 2007?

HB 215 reflects the best of Utah’s policymaking ethic: avoid making a zero-sum game of two important education policy reforms – and seek changes that serve the common good.

Modern private education choice policies include education savings accounts, vouchers, tax credit scholarships, tax credit education savings accounts, tax credits and deductions.

The COVID-19 pandemic left parents rethinking their choices about how to educate their children.

Microschools allow fewer students than in a traditional school to meet in a mixed-age environment, much like a one-room schoolhouse.

Families looking for flexibility of time and location while having structure or curriculum organized may be the most interested in virtual schools.

A magnet school exists within a public school district and has a specific theme – which could include STEM, performing arts, International Baccalaureate, or career and technical education.

Home schooling grew among minorities and special-needs students during pandemic. Utah’s home-school community also increased substantially during COVID-19 era.