Key education issues facing Utah’s new governor, Legislature include demands for more funding, pandemic help

Usually, the biggest education battle during the legislative session is over the budget — will lawmakers boost funding and by how much? That part of the process was (mostly) taken off the table last month when leaders voted to pump $400 million of new education funding into the base budget at the start of the 2021 session.But the education community and lawmakers have a shifting landscape to navigate, with a new governor for the first time in more than a decade and schools struggling with