Our Schools Now to move forward

March 20, 2017 (Spectrum)

Utah has gradually seen its investment in public education erode over the years, thanks to a series of tax cuts and rule changes, especially a mid-90s reform to property tax assessments and the virtual elimination of income tax brackets in 2007.

In 1995 Utah ranked 7th in the nation in education funding when measured as a percentage of earned income, but by 2015 it had fallen to 37th place, according to an analysis by the Utah Foundation, a nonpartisan research group based in Salt Lake City.

Based on the estimated revenue that would come from the initiative, Washington County schools and their 28,600 students could see an additional $28 million annually, money administrators said they would use to train teachers and expand programs like the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) effort based around individual interventions for each student.

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