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Congressman urges land-exchange strategy to grow Utah school trust fund
Summary
A visiting U.S. congressman told the Utah House that federal land exchanges consolidating BLM holdings into school trust lands are the best long-term way to increase education funding, comparing Utah’s smaller trust fund to New Mexico’s $7.5 billion corpus and promising continued bipartisan work in Congress.
Congressman Kennedy told members of the Utah House on the floor that he will press for a program of federal land exchanges to consolidate Bureau of Land Management parcels into school and institutional trust lands to raise long-term funding for Utah public schools. "This is simply and directly an issue that relates to how we fund our kids in our schools," he said.
Kennedy introduced several staff who will serve as resources for the effort and described the practical aim: move federal parcels into a consolidated state trust…
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