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January 25, 2020
"Education has been my number one budget priority since I've been in office, and we've done very good by education." Governor Herbert
March 3, 2019
"There's commitments by the legislature to make sure that they fund appropriately public education which as you know has been historically my number one budget priority." Governor Herbert
June 22, 2017
"It is a beautiful summer day out there, and I know it's a time for families to take off and have family vacations to kind of travel and go up in the mountains and have recreational opportunities." Governor Herbert
March 26, 2017
"We're into the final days of the 20-day period where we have the ability in the Executive branch, and myself, personally, to sign or veto or let go into law without my signature, 535 pieces of legislation that have been...
December 23, 2016
"Our economy today is as healthy as it's ever been, certainly as healthy as it was last year. And yet, we have a revenue stream that's about $100 million lower, and part of it's because $200 million in lost but owed sales tax...
February16, 2016
"We ought to have fairness and level playing fields when it comes to the education of our students..." Governor Herbert
January 28, 2016
"My proposed budget that I've recommended to the legislature adds another $422 million to education, which would bring us a total of nearly $1.8 billion over these last 5 years." Governor Herbert
June 26, 2015
Governor Herbert on Education:"We don't have money to waste, and we need to kind of come together on what the next 10 years will be, and not have to reinvent the wheel each time we have a legislative session"
March 23, 2015
"Education funding was a big change and we had significant amounts of money put into education, which I think was a great thing." Governor Herbert