The Utah Legislature will get a flood of new members next year, the result of retirements and electoral defeats, and public school advocates say the turnover and changes will be good for Utah schoolchildren and colleges and universities.
"With a lot of combinations of events, we think there’s a pretty good group of legislators who are going to be at the table for the [education] discussion," said Nolan Karras, a former Utah House speaker and cochairman of the group Education First, a business-backed political action committee (PAC).
Not surprisingly, others view the direction the Legislature may be headed differently. Read more: Salt Lake Tribune
