Al Hartmann  |  The Salt Lake Tribune
Ninth-grade students in Tami Ewell's Language Arts class at Copper Mountain Middle School in Herriman work on a sentence structure lesson Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014. WPU (per student spending) increases in recent years haven't actually been enough in most cases to boost teacher pay or reduce class sizes. This year's WPU increase won't likely be enough either if lawmakers stick to the 2.5 percent increase being proposed by the governor. Much of Jordan District's WPU increase this year was overshadowed by retirement costs and the costs of opening the new  Copper Mountain Middle School to accomodate enrollment growth.