Utah legislature doubles funding for school choice program after 'overwhelming number of applications'
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The Utah legislature voted to double the funding for the Utah Fits All Scholarship program from $40M to $80M for its inaugural year after high demand for the program.
The application portal for the program opened on February 28 and had available spots for 10,000 students. Within the first 24 hours, the portal received applications from 10,617 students in its first year of starting. Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
Robyn Bagley, Executive Director of Utah Education Fits All, told Fox News Digital that "the overwhelming number of applications in only the first 24 hours demonstrates that the allotment for the Utah Fits All Scholarship must continue to grow." Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.
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