Bill to help hire more school counselors moves to Senate

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill that would authorize the Utah State Board of Education to award matching grants to increase the number of school counselors in Utah elementary schools was unanimously approved Monday by the Senate Education Committee.Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper, who is the Senate co-sponsor of HB264, said he used to be of the mindset that special programs weren't needed in schools, that struggling children "can buck up and they can survive and do well without any kind of specia