Utah Lawmakers Weigh Technical-College System

Utah lawmakers will vote this month on whether to create a college of applied technology that would have 10 campuses throughout the state and rely heavily on competency exams.

The new college is an attempt to settle a decades-old dispute between secondary-school and higher-education officials over who should administer the state's applied-technology programs, which offer job-training classes, computer courses, and high-school-equivalency degrees.

Those programs are currently

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