It’s more a priority to cut income tax, leaving public education a $600 million IOU.
It’s more a priority to “hold harmless” public education, rather than provide more resources to rise above last-in-the-nation funding.
The constitutional provision to fund public education from income tax has for generations signaled what should be our priority. Utah’s greatest generation recognized that a free and prosperous society was also an educated society, and a matter of social contract with freer future generations. That constitutional provision has stood as a durable intergenerational — if aspirational — commitment to public education.
With our booming economy, we should more fully benefit from the promise of that constitutional provision.