For years, Utahns have said that they want to see more resources invested in the state’s public school system. And every year our leaders say they are responding to public demand by appropriating more and more funding to education.
Just last month, one of the co-chairs of the Utah Legislature’s Public Education Appropriations subcommittee was quoted saying that the amount of new revenue invested in public education in recent years was “really, really remarkable.”
Yet the new Children’s Budget Report released last week by Voices for Utah Children finds that, in fact, when we control for inflation and Utah’s rising enrollment, our investment in education over the last decade has not been remarkable at all.