96% of Utah's children attend public school.
Utah has the most overcrowded classrooms in the country.
Utah ranks last in the nation in spending per student.
Instead of diverting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for vouchers, Utahns should increase our investment in public schools.
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How much money is the school budget?
$2.6 billion
How much is alotted for vouchers?
$9 million (not $100s of millions)
What percentage of the budget is the voucher program?
.346% of the budget. Not even half of 1 percent
Where does the money come from?
It comes from the state budget.
Does it effect education monies from local property tax?
NO.
What does this mean?
Although money was alotted from the STATE budget it left local budget alone. This means that state money is dogtagged to the student. This is already the case. All school districts account for the students they have enrolled. After this around Oct. 1st the schools receive their state funding. When a child moves from a public school to a private school the local taxes remain in the public school. Therefore the public school get MORE MONEY per student.
Is this common with all school solutions?
Yes and no. Yes because Charter Schools get money a similar way.
No because people who have no other solution choose home education and they get no money allowances from the state. Although some local schools have some program solutions.
Why are tax payers expected to throw more and more money at a problem that is not being fixed?
If I was following every recommendation from a personal trainer and getting poor results I would not pay more for the same poor results. If I bought a computer that did not function as promised I would not pay more for the product. That is senseless and wasteful. Yet that is what the government controlled public education asks of us. There are tried and true programs from Charlotte Mason, Maria Montessori, Quality Schools, Pure John Dewey, just to name a few that relate nothing to class size or teacher pay. Yet we would rather experiment with the lives of little kids.
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