Instead, neither the governor nor the majority of legislators understand that the incremental approach to education funding they are pursuing is inadequate. The governor trumpets the additional $1.3 billion he and the Legislature have allocated for education over the past four years. But he still doesn’t understand (or refuses to acknowledge) how paltry that is compared to the actual need. In his State of the State speech earlier this year, the governor said: “Education is not all about the money, but is some about the money.” It is a lot more about money than the governor will admit. The Utah Foundation estimates it would take each year twice what the governor and Legislature allocated over four years to raise Utah’s per pupil spending level to the national average.
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