Education Funding

The goal is to get 70% of Utah third graders reading at grade level by 2027.

The latest Utah news for Thursday morning, Mar. 3, 2022.

A proposal to expand all-day kindergarten would’ve provided three years of funding to help districts plan for hiring more teachers and potentially building additional classroom space.

HB 331 would have given students a scholarship for private school tuition, private tutors or textbooks if they were opted out of public school.

The legislative session is in its final stretch, with just one week left. This is the time when lawmakers vote on a ton of the session's most important and most controversial bills.

Less than half of Utah students are reading at grade level. A new bill would be a “sea change” in improving outcomes.

A $24 million bill appears likely to clear the Utah Legislature this year, providing four-years worth of funding to help districts and charters make full-day kindergarten available to all students.

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Utah schools are receiving nearly $1 billion in federal COVID relief funding. But some say they don’t need or want it.

Student outcomes are a more important measure of a state’s public education system than its funding ranking. But the level of funding a state provides can be an important aid to student success.