Bernard Lacour, a longtime
school reformer who works with local
school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition
for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear
among local councils that their
candidates will be challenged by the
board of education and their authority taken away from them.
Over the weekend a quickly - formed
school board candidate fund - raiser was put together by the Utah Technology Council,
among others, with House Speaker Greg Hughes, R - Draper, and Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R - Sandy, called in to help raise money
for some of the remaining
school board incumbents feeling the heat from the Utah Education Association — the main teacher union in the state.