Providing adequate funding for public education is difficult in Utah. Although taxpayers pay relatively high taxes and a large share of that tax revenue is dedicated to education, the size of Utah’s student population leads to the lowest per-pupil funding in the nation. We have become adept at doing our best with limited resources, like the old New England proverb adopted by early Utahns, “use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
Utah at the Crossroads: Challenges for K-12 Education in the Coming Ten Years
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