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8 LONG TITLE
9 General Description:
10 This bill requires the State Board of Education to provide funding for paid preparation
11 days for teachers to improve curriculum and classroom transparency.
12 Highlighted Provisions:
13 This bill:
14 ▸ requires the State Board of Education to provide funding for a certain number of
15 paid preparation days for teachers to improve curriculum and classroom
16 transparency.
17 Money Appropriated in this Bill:
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19 Other Special Clauses:
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21 Utah Code Sections Affected:
22 ENACTS:
23 53F-7-202, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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25 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
26 Section 1. Section 53F-7-202 is enacted to read:
27 53F-7-202. Additional days for curriculum and classroom transparency.
28 (1) Subject to legislative appropriations, the state board shall provide funding to each
29 LEA in accordance with this section to provide additional paid teacher preparation days for a
30 teacher to improve curriculum and classroom transparency, including providing more
31 information regarding classroom resources and materials through the school's learning
32 management system, as that term is defined in Section 53G-6-804.
33 (2) The state board shall distribute funding under this section to each LEA in
34 proportion to the number of classroom teachers within the LEA:
35 (a) 10 paid preparation days for each classroom teacher in the teacher's first three years
36 of teaching;
37 (b) 10 paid preparation days for each middle, junior, or high school classroom teacher
38 in the first year in which the teacher teaches a new subject; and
39 (c) five paid preparation days for each classroom teacher that does not fall under
40 Subsection (2)(a) or (b).
41 (3) The state board may not require a report or accounting of activities performed
42 during the paid days provided under this section.