Currently, the Utah State Office of Education, Utah System of Higher Education and Utah Colleges of Applied Technology are developing strategic plans to ensure investments in educational support for students and the future well being of our state. They are working with elected officials to build on consensus goals articulated in Prosperity through Education and by recent work from the Utah Foundation.
The Utah Foundation, for example, researched policies and programs in Colorado to understand how they rebounded from a slip in education rankings nationally. They found that statewide assessments and accountability measures, publicly funded preschool, full-day kindergarten and specific literacy legislation might account for Colorado’s robust improvement. (See the research report, Lessons from Our Neighbor: Learning from Colorado’s Educational Success.)
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