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(Salt Lake City-AP) -- Governor Olene Walker will go to a school for autisitic students to explain her decision to veto a bill that would have helped parents pay for special education.
Walker will be at the Carmen B. Pingree School for Children with Autism at 9 this morning.
Legislators are upset she rejected the bill that sought to give disabled schoolchildren a state subsidy to attend private schools.
Walker vetoed the so-called "Carson Smith Scholarship" bill but says she's leaving intact its one-point-five (M)million dollars in funding.
She plans to reallocate that money to give all disabled students more special education at public schools.
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