Don't Trust Rumors

I said in a recent post that partisan elections of State School Board members would not be brought up. I was wrong. SB224 is called Partisan School Board Elections. It is scheduled for a committee hearing this afternoon. Judging from the reception to the bill calling for non-partisan election of State School Board members, it is probably headed to easy passage -- unless enough voters contact their senators and representatives and talk them out of voting for it. A poll conducted last fall showed that the majority of Utahns believed that education is best served when partisan politics are kept away.