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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah State Office of Education employees will be required to take three furlough days to help slash the agency's budget 3 percent.
Superintendent Larry Shumway says the furloughs apply to 277 full-time and 40 part-time employees. The furloughs do not apply to local school districts or charter school employees and no schools will be closed because of the decision.
Closing the State Office of Education on Jan. 29, Feb. 26 and March 26 is expected to save about $150,000.
Republican Gov. Gary Herbert ordered state agencies to cut their budgets in December.
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