Just over 30 percent of Utah’s population is under the age of 18, with more than 600,000 students in the state’s public schools.
That population is expected to grow 64 percent by 2050, when Utah will have almost a million students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Higher education will experience similarly robust growth.
Yet Utah has no long-term, comprehensive, statewide plan for public and higher education in spite of recommendations from civic groups such as Prosperity 2020 and Education First. A new report from the non-partisan Utah Foundation, Reaching Toward 2050: Education in the Midst of Population Growth, recommends creating that plan and explains some of the reasons why it’s needed.
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