The state has pumped some $600 million in new money into schools since 2010, according to legislative analysts, and state legislators and Gov. Gary Herbert often cite education as their top priority.
But most of the new money has gone to fund increases in student enrollment and inflation.
An analysis published late last year by the Utah Foundation, a nonpartisan research group, suggested the state has dramatically cut its investment in education over the past 20 years. In 1995 Utah ranked 7th in the nation in education funding when measured as a percentage of earned income, according to the report. By 2015, it had fallen to 37th place.
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