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SALT LAKE CITY -- Lawmakers are considering a bill that cracks down on school districts receiving money from others in Utah. It also leaves the door open for an end to the controversial program.
Right now, the Jordan School District gets millions of dollars from other districts in Salt Lake County because it needed help after splitting. But Sen. Ben McAdams, D-Salt Lake City, says he sponsored Senate Bill 175 because equalization is bad public policy.
"This masquerades as education equalization. What it really is, is a subsidy for development -- the subsidy for urban sprawl," McAdams says.
The bill also leaves the door open for an end or change to the program by 2014.
SB 175 moved from a committee Thursday into the Senate for debate.
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