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Show "Utah Spends More Tax Money For Schools Than Any Other State age-wise, was New Mexico, with ! 32.9 per cent. Only seven states I spent more than 30 per cent of their state expenditures for school purposes. Seven states were in the 25 to 29 per cent range. Twelve were in the 20-2-1 per cent range, ten in the 15-19 per cent, eight 10-14 per cent and four less than the per cent. Five of the eight mountain west states Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming were in the 15-19 per cent group. Utah spent only 29.7 per cent of its income for education in 1946, but had jumped to 39.7 per cent by 1919. Utah spent a greater proportion of its state funds for education than any other state in the union, figures released by the U. S. Bureau Bur-eau of the Census show. The Beehive Bee-hive state spent less than the national average for highways. Utah school and college costs took 35.6 per cent of the total budget, the report showed. National Na-tional average was 21.3 per cent, and Massachusetts spent only 7.8 per cent of its budget for education. educa-tion. The report was briefed from governmet figures by the Utah Foundation, non-profit tax research re-search organization. Utah's total budget in 1950 was $67,600,000. Of that, $24,091,000 went to support state and local schools and colleges. ' ' District school expenditures from local funds were not included in that figure. Nearest state to Utah, percent- |