Utah likely voters responded that their top five education priorities are: increasing teacher retention through increased pay, smaller class sizes for students, adequate amount of funding for students, modernizing curriculum to more adequately prepare students for the workforce, and providing more personalized learning to students.
For comparison, we looked at how parents viewed the general population’s top five priorities. Parents of Utah students aren’t too far off in terms of their support for those top-ranking General population priorities of the general population. In Utah parents fact, a slightly higher percentage of Utah parents than the general populationsaid their priorities were higher pay to retain teachers, smaller class sizes for students, adequate amount of funding for students, and providing more personalized learning to students. In fact, these four were listed among Utah parents’ top five priorities as well.
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