Utah lawmakers have proposed increasing education spending per student by a total of $128 million this year — which matches what the governor requested when he listed it as his top funding priority.
It’s still a small enough bump, at about 4 percent, that it likely will not take the state out of last place in the nation for per-pupil funding, a spot it has secured every year for at least the last decade. But it’s a significantly larger increase than either of the last two years, which each saw increases of about $90 million.