Which is it?
Here’s the math. This year per pupil funding is at $2,577 dollars. Next year it’s $2,816 dollars, a gain of $239 dollars. But while the legislature was increasing funding for one area, it was decreasing it in another. Lawmakers took money the schools already had and moved it to increase per pupil funding.
Hidden budget cuts have a big impact on local schools
Moving money around is not the same as increasing the pot. But certain legislators convinced the Legislature to do just that. And then to claim they have provided the new money needed to educate an expected influx of more than 14,000 new students in Utah schools next year.
After the State Office of Education analyzed education funding dollars, they found it may not curb class sizes after all. In fact, there is less funding per pupil in the coming year, than there is this year.
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