Former Utah Senate President Wayne Niederhauser identified the ongoing improvement of Utah’s schools as essential to Utahns’ quality of life. He believed that every student in the state deserves access to a world-class education and that parents have a right to know how their students’ schools perform.
In 2015, Niederhauser and Rep. Brad Last created Utah’s School Turnaround and Leadership Development Act as an innovative approach to increasing student success at the lowest-performing schools in the state. As an elected member of the Utah State Board of Education, I enthusiastically supported members of the Utah Legislature as they created a bold solution for Utah’s under-performing schools.