Educators say less was more at the 2018 Utah Legislature

When the Utah Legislature began its annual 45-day session in January, the usual torrent of education-related bills fell to a trickle.Lawmakers chose to begin with a clean-up of reams of legal references contained in Utah’s education statutes. It meant days of tedious procedural work that delayed debate of new laws and policy.
But that throttling effect lingered well after the rewriting was completed, leaving a compressed schedule for broader discussions of a handful of new schools-related