Utah is expected to gain about 385,000 K-12 students by 2050, but state leaders are past due in planning and preparing for future growth while ensuring adequate school funding and satisfactory student performance.
That’s the message from a Utah Foundation report released Thursday that takes a look at what education in the state could be like given the growth and increasing ethnic diversity over the next 35 years.
State leaders and educators are in the process of developing a 10-year statewide education plan, but “inadequate policy responses” to education needs up to now have caused Utah to fall behind in its support for schools and the academic achievement of its students, the report states.
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