Utah Code Title 53E. Public Education System--State Administration § 53E-6-302. Educator preparation programs

(i) a university teacher education program; or

(ii) a program that prepares individuals using an alternative pathway to licensure, as the state board provides, that does not include content or time requirements that conflict with the content or time requirements described in rule made by the state board in accordance with Subsection (2).

(i) provide instruction in the science of reading; and

(ii) prepare license applicants to pass the required literacy preparation assessment at no cost to the applicants for the preparation, including providing ongoing preparation for up to three total attempts of the required literacy preparation assessment.

(i) monitoring courses for university teacher preparation programs; and

(ii) working with course instructors for university teacher preparation programs;

(i) the state board;

(ii) local school boards or charter school governing boards; and

(iii) representatives of university teacher preparation programs; and

(i) the state board; and

(ii) education deans of state institutions of higher education.

(i) to hire an additional faculty member who has training in the science of reading and the science of reading instruction; and

(ii) in an amount equal to 75% of the cost of making the hire described in Subsection (6)(a) if the institution provides 25% of the cost; and

(i) criteria for the hire described in Subsection (6)(a) that would qualify for a distribution of funding; and

(ii) an individual institution's fulfillment of the criteria described in Subsection (6)(b)(i) before distributing funding.

(b)(i) develop strategies to provide support for preparation programs with low rates of passage on the required literacy preparation assessment; and

(ii) provide increasing levels of support to a preparation program with low rates of passage on the required literacy preparation assessment for two consecutive years.