Fourteen years after they were rejected by Utah voters, Senate Majority Assistant Whip Kirk Cullimore is set to introduce a bill that would create a $36 million school voucher program, calling it the “Hope Scholarship Program.'
Utah voters resoundingly rejected school vouchers in 2007. Now Sen. Kirk Cullimore has a bill that would bring them back.School vouchers are coming back at Utah’s Capitol hill.
The same family of four earning $147,075 per year would be eligible for less per child — up to $3,809. The groups rallied to put a referendum on the ballot that year to rescind the bill and 62% of Utah voters sided with the repeal effort.
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