Proud to be Number 51?

Utah public school students still get the smallest chunk of government education funding in the country. A report released by the U.S. Census Bureau Tuesday ranked the state's 2013 per-student spending -- $6,555 a year -- at the bottom of the heap for U.S. states.
The analysis found that per-student spending increased by nearly 1 percent nationwide between 2012 and 2013, to an average of $10,700.
But Utah's per-student funding earned a ranking of 51st -- behind all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

Read the Article in the SL Tribune