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BLF Note:
At last, public acknowledgement of the bounties placed on
the heads of children and demanded by as well as offered up to public
officials, depending upon how fully the children have been vaccinated according
to CDC dictates. Children who have had
previous vaccine reactions and whose parents cannot find a doctor willing to
write a medical exemption are at particular risk for vaccine injury and death
when confronted with a “no-exceptions” vaccination policy.
Immunization tiff could sting
Districts dispute state’s figures, fight to keep funds
By Jennifer Toomer-Cook
Deseret News staff writer
A dozen Utah school districts could lose more than a half
million dollars because some of their students weren’t immunized last school year.
But some of those school districts are contesting the
state’s numbers of unimmunized students. Some say they’ll lose just a fraction
of state estimates, and some say everything has been cleared up.
Box Elder, Garfield, Granite, Juab, Logan, Murray, Nebo,
Ogden, Provo, Salt Lake, Tintic and Tooele school districts combined lose
$531,500 in state weighted pupil unit funding
the state’s basic education funding because 271 students couldn’t prove
they had been immunized or legally exempted from immunizations under state law,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Steve Laing said Friday.
Salt Lake, Granite, and Box Elder districts account for
the lion’s share of the projected loss, with $175,628, $135,201 and $131, 427, respectively.
The others are relatively paltry sums, ranging from Nebo’s $1,516 not even one full student’s worth of WPU
money to $19,044, or nine students’
worth, in Murray and Tintic.
State law says school districts won’t receive WPU money
unless they prove students are up to date on immunizations or have been
exempted under certain conditions, including medical or religious concerns.
State Associate Superintendent Pat Ogden couldn’t recall
withholding WPU funds because of immunizations in the past. But this year, he
said, school nurses reported who received shots to the Utah Department of
Health instead of to school districts, which may bring more accurate reporting.
Some school districts, however, dispute that
explanation.
Salt Lake, for instance, has found more than half of
the 83 reportedly
unimmunized students actually were “not entered into the
computer correctly,” spokesman Jason Olsen said. Instead, the district has
found 33 students were not in compliance, bringing its lost funding to about
$70,000.
Granite District also was finding reporting errors,
spokeswoman Michele Bartmess said.
Box Elder Superintendent Martell Menlove said some of the
62 students the state says were not immunized actually may have received the
shots, but proof was not provided. He also believes a couple of schools allowed
students who didn’t receive their shots to attend school.
“I hope (the state will) allow us to go back and at least
look at those records and make sure,” Menlove said.
Ogden said his office will examine the district’s
reporting examinations before taking action on the WPU money. “We’ve not
withheld it yet.”
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