The Michael Barry show Utah has become the third state to enshrine school choice into law joining Arizona and Iowa

Cory de Angelus of the American Federation for Children says a universal school choice revolution has ignited

Adding that Arkansas, Florida, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas

May soon follow over the weekend Utah's governor Spencer Cox signed into law

House Bill 215 which establishes the Utah Fits All Scholarship program

providing funding for the program as well as boosted teacher pay

House Bill 215 provides students with $8,000 in state funds that can be used towards

private school tuition and other education related expenses

The program is capped at $42 million and 5,000 participants for its first year

The legislation also increased annual teacher salaries in the state by $6,000

Despite this the legislation faced universal opposition from numerous public education groups

Including the State Board of Education and the Utah Education Association

Governor Cox said in a release statement school choice works best when we adequately fund public education

And we remove unnecessary regulations that burden our public schools and make it difficult for them to succeed

We are especially appreciative of our teachers and education leaders who helped push for more accountability measures

Which were not included in the original bill

The Angela says a universal school choice revolution has ignited Utah is the second state this year

To go all in on empowering families with education freedom

Red states are now engaging in friendly competition to fund students not systems

Iowa already passed universal school choice this year

The UH Public Policy Institute did a rather extensive survey

Poll that I read to you from last week about

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