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Utah's public education budget bill would adjust funding for the current 2025–26 school year and set new appropriations for the 2026–27 school year, while also making several policy changes across the K-12 system. It would eliminate the Digital Teaching and Learning Grant Program, set July 2027 expiration dates for both the Personalized, Competency-based Learning Grants Program and a program letting small schools access online courses, and create a new College and Career Counseling program by shifting per-student funding units and dollars away from the Career and Technical Education add-on program while also increasing per-student funding for the At-Risk Students program. The bill would change how annual growth in educator salary bonuses is calculated, capping increases at whichever is lower — the rise in per-student state funding value or the Consumer Price Index — and would revise how the state distributes mental health screening funds to schools, moving from a fixed 90/10 percentage split to distributing money to schools on an as-needed basis. Starting in July 2027, students who both receive a Utah Fits All private-school scholarship and take online courses through the Private Course Choice Empowerment Program would be required to pay for those courses using their scholarship funds rather than accessing them separately, and the bill would also direct the State Board of Education to create new data-reporting and tracking standards for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.