Comments about ‘Legislature approves more than $150M extra to public education budget’

It is always good to invest in the education of the rising generation.

I think the10-15 year vision Mr. Dabakis is to end public education as we know it and set up on-line charter schools all over the place with economic ties to certain legislators. While it might sound great to pat the legislators on their backs for doing something they should be doing, it might be too little, too late as the past few years have put Utah's school's on life support with more and more young, inexperienced doctors trying to run triage.

I know everyone seems to be really excited, and anything is better than nothing or better than a budget cut, but could we please stop acting like this has solved all the problems. If you include the rising costs for retirement (created by the legislature) FICA and health care costs, there isn't much of that 2% left over. This budget does nothing to reduce class size or address many other critical financial needs. Again 2% is better than a cut, but in reality we have not moved forward, we are just not moving backward.

Lets not forget that $60 million will end up lost before the money even hits the classroom.

Fred44 proves a point:

No matter how much you increase funding,--you'll always need more.