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Article: Bigelow effort would fund more school nurses
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2007
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After more than a year of lobbying, a Tooele mother's wish for
more school nurses might be at least partly granted.
Rep. Ron Bigelow, R-West Valley, and co-chairman of the
Legislature's main budget committee, confirmed Tuesday that he is
talking about creating a line item to pay for additional school
nurses.
"We're trying to figure out the best method to approach that
since school districts originally had school nurses, but much of the
funding (when rolled into block grants) was diverted into other
programs," Bigelow said. "We want to see more school nurses in the
schools, but we also want the school districts to step up to the
issue as well. So we're going to talk with them and with others ...