But if lawmakers are able to prioritize funding for schools through existing revenue, he said, then the goals of the initiative can be achieved over time without a tax increase.
“I think if we can get the dollars there, that’s the most important thing,” Schultz said. “My whole goal with all of this is to work together and show everybody we don’t have to have a tax increase to accomplish the same things.”
“Lawmakers have set a very high bar for ballot initiatives in Utah,” Cox said. “If more than 110,000 [petition signers] express the desire to vote for better school funding, it would be tragic to undermine the most democratic of institutions.