Future Utah college students could have access to a $12 million scholarship fund. And state inmates could see increased and more streamlined education offerings in prisons and jails.
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The former head of an influential state budget office has landed more than $350,000 in public funding to launch a new program and has carved out a full-time position for herself at the University of Utah.
Kristen Cox, who left the Utah Governor’s Office of Management and Budget in September, stirred controversy as she took a central role in the state’s initial pandemic response. Public health leaders indicated they were frustrated and felt edged out by the level of GOMB’s involvement, according to emails obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune, with Cox writing in one message that while she considered members of the medical establishment part of the solution, “relying on them exclusively has put our country into a serious and avoidable crisis.”