1.    Committee Business

·         Call to order

·         Approval of the minutes of the October 15, 2025, meeting

 

2.    Legislative Audit: Best Practice Handbook for Student Achievement

The committee will hear a presentation about audit 2025-13, “The Best Practice Handbook For Student Achievement in Public Education.”

·         Office of the Legislative Auditor General staff

 

3.    Legislative Audits: Sensitive Materials in Schools and School Library Books

The committee will hear presentations about audits 2025-11, “A Performance Audit of Sensitive Materials in Schools” and 2025-28, “A Review of School Library Books.”

·         Office of the Legislative Auditor General staff

·         Utah State Board of Education officials

 

4.    Draft Legislation: Local Education Agency Financial Reporting

This draft committee bill amends provisions related to the Utah Public Finance Website and financial reporting for education.

·         Committee staff

·         Committee discussion

·         Public comment

 

5.    Draft Legislation: Online Education Service Provider Funding and Oversight

This draft committee bill transitions educational service providers to the Utah Fits All Scholarship Program.

·         Committee staff

·         Committee discussion

·         Public comment

 

6.    Draft Legislation: Privacy Compliance for Education Technology Vendors

This draft committee bill requires the termination of a contract with a third-party provider in certain circumstances involving a failure to comply with state or federal privacy laws.

·         Representative Tiara Auxier

·         Committee discussion

·         Public comment

 

 

 

 

7.    Draft Legislation: Public Education Revisions

This draft committee bill amends provisions and programs regarding the operation of the public education system.

·         Committee staff

·         Committee discussion

·         Public comment

 

8.    Draft Legislation: School Attendance Modifications

This draft legislation addresses attendance provisions, requires citizenship grades, allows some students to test out of core classes, and creates a pilot citizenship grades scholarship program for higher education.

·         Representative Doug Welton

 

9.    Draft Legislation: Education Testing Amendments

This draft legislation creates the Alternative Statewide Testing Pilot Program.

·         Representative Karianne Lisonbee

 

10.  Survey Results: Student Participation in High School Sports

The committee will hear about the results from an online survey Representative Katy Hall and the Utah High School Activities Association distributed to teachers, coaches, parents, and students about potential updates to Utah high school sports policies.

·         Representative Katy Hall

 

11.  Working Group on School Violence

The committee will hear about findings from a working group Senator Daniel McCay convened to examine peer-to-peer school violence.

·         Utah Commission on Criminal & Juvenile Justice officials

 

12.  Other Items/Adjourn