The FY2024 budget proposed by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox includes what he is calling the largest teacher compensation increase in Utah's history. The $200 million budget line item would provide each...
After fulfilling statutory education funding requirements (fully fund student enrollment growth and the WPU inflation adjustment in the base budget; and fully fund the education working rainy day...
Today’s highlights… Vouchers voted down: The House substituted the private school voucher bill, HB331, with a new bill softening the financial impact on public schools and adding a level of academic...
Gov. Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson unveiled their budget recommendations and priorities for Fiscal Year 2023. The proposal asks the legislature to provide nearly a billion additional...
The Utah Legislature controls public education funding and our elected legislators must pass a balanced budget each year during the General Legislative Session. Until the passage of Constitutional...
Education Budget and Taxes – March 8, 2021 Work on the public education budget in 2021 was very different than in previous years. The process really began during the 2020 Legislative Session with...
2019 Legislature: Modest education increase plus promises for tax reform – March 18, 2019 The news leading up to the 2019 session was all about a very large revenue surplus, somewhere near $1...
7% Equivalent WPU Bump for Public Education Funding – March 9, 2018 For more than a year prior to the 2018 Legislative Session, the UEA worked with members of the business community to increase...