Utah again last in U.S. per pupil spending
Utah is again ranked dead last in the U.S. for per-pupil education spending.
New numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau show the state spent just over 76-hundred dollars per student in 2018.
State education leaders say Utah would have to spend about 94-million dollars more to overtake Idaho in the rankings.
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