Utah explores emergency funding amid dramatic increase in English learners enrolled in schools • Utah News Dispatch

Utah explores emergency funding amid dramatic increase in English learners enrolled in schools • Utah News Dispatch

Students wait in line to go to lunch at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in South Salt Lake on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)Classroom sizes in Utah are climbing, which lawmakers partially attribute to a trickle effect of the southern border crisis. And, being able to cater to students who are in the process of learning English has become “unsustainable” with current resources, teachers have told their r…