Topic - Utah Education Association

The Utah Education Association (UEA) is the largest public education employees' union in the U.S. state of Utah, representing more than 18,000 teachers. It has local affiliates in 41 school districts, Applied Technology Colleges, and the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind in Ogden. It is the state affiliate of the National Education Association. - Source: Wikipedia

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Ninth grade students in Tami Ewell's Language Arts class work on a sentence structure lesson on Jan. 29, 2014 at Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman, Utah. When lawmakers decided to boost per-pupil spending last year by 2 percent, many Utahns cheered, envisioning that cash raining on teachers and classrooms. In reality, much of that money was spoken for, by the state retirement system, long before it ever hit schools, a Salt Lake Tribune investigation has found. In the Salt Lake City and Alpine school districts, not one cent of the increased student funding made it into classrooms. All of it went to the state retirement system and/or rising health care costs. It's a pattern that could repeat this year unless lawmakers find more money per student than what's so far been proposed. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann)

School fund boosts don’t always reach classrooms

By LISA SCHENCKER - Associated Press