The Teaching and Learning program represents overhead costs associated with compliance, service, monitoring, auditing, and reporting. The program is organized into five broad categories:
- Literacy Education;
- Science-Technology-Engineering & Mathematics Education;
- Fine Arts and Humanities Education;
- Health and Physical Education; and
- K-12 Instruction.
During the 2015 General Session, the Legislature appropriated for Fiscal Year 2016, $31,028,600 from all sources for Teaching and Learning. This is a 0.4 percent increase from Fiscal Year 2015 revised estimated amounts from all sources. The total includes $5,284,600 from the General/Education Funds, an increase of 1.7 percent from revised Fiscal Year 2015 estimates.
In addition to statewide compensation and internal service fund cost increases, the following appropriation adjustments were made during the 2015 General Session:
COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.