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Show Page 64 - THE HERALD.'Provo, Utah, Sunday, December 11. 1983 Education Pilot Plan Endorsed tne issue is becoming so politicized we are afraid reasonable The leader of one of the state's largest citizen organizations says his group favors the concept of merit pay for teachers, but believes educators and legislators ought to establish "a carefully monitored pilot program for merit pay" in a limited number of Utah schools. These pilot programs could evaluate teacher career ladders, student testing methods and ocher techniques to assure that "higher taxes for merit pay programs will actually result in improved educational excellence," said Frank 0. Nishiguchi, President of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, which represents nearly 20,000 Utah families. "There is an obvious need for innovative improvement in classroom teacher effectiveness, but solutions may be overlooked in favor of rhetoric," he commented. Nishiguchi, a Garland area farmer, said Farm Bureau has taken a position on the seemingly issue because "we are citizens before we are farmers or ranchers," and be- cause many of the organization's members live in rural school districts "which constantly struggle to find the money and resources to adequately teach our children." tech"With the rapidly-changin- g nology now available in agriculture, our children simply must have a high quality education if they are to survive in our industry. The business and our society are so complicated today our young people cannot afford to be undereducated." "Teacher must be properly compensated for their work, he said, and facilities must be adequate, but simply putting money into untried programs is not the answer. "There must be a direct between higher relationship teacher compensation and measured student achievement," he said. Nishiguchi said the career ladder compensation program suggested by Gov. Scott Matheson's Education Reform Study Committee and the merit pay concept suggested by some legislatures should meet two criteria before statewide adoption. "Any plan must be both, fair to teachers and to taxpayers, and any plan has to result in better quality education. We can't know Uiose things without trying them on a limited basis first," he said. He noted that the legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Utah Education Association should work together, seeking citizen participation, to develop a realistic teacher compensation-improve- d productivity plan that could be introduced to selected pilot school districts around the state. "We also believe that too much of the school dollar is spent for administrative and supervisory purposes rather than direct pupil uses such as classroom teaching," the farm leader said, adding that school districts should be agreeable to cooperative arrangements between districts to better utilize school facilities. , "These problems must also be addressed in any plan to improve our educational system," he said. Paul Larsen to Lecture At Michigan University ing scientist with understanding of Utah's extension di- national and international hortirector. Dr. R. Paul Larsen, has culture. Also, he has been a benebeen invited by the Michigan State of tutelage under Dr. HanHorticultural Society to present ficiarya renowned horticulturist the John A. Hannah Distinguished nah, is who being immortalized by the Lecture at its annual convention annual distinguished lecture in his this month. name. Larsen, a native of Orem, Utah, Larsen holds MS and Ph.D dewho graduated from Utah State from Kansas State Univergrees University in 1950, returned to his sity and Michigan State University alma mater as vice president for He was named outextension in August, 1982. He will respectively. extension specialist at standing address the Michigan fruit indusMichigan State in 1967. Prior' to try, discussing how agriculture returning to Utah, he served 14 will be served by and through the years as superintendent and hortiExtension Service in the future. culturist of the Tree Fruit ReOfficials of the Michigan Hortisearch Center at Wenatchee, invited cultural Society said they Washington. Larsen because he is an outstand LOGAN USU is Research Sponsor For Sheep Abortion Vaccine other states are also using this method to make the vaccine available to their producers. Utah State University will again serve as a Research Sponsor in order to make the vaccine tor Enzootic Abortion of Ewes Hopefully a license will soon be granted to Colorado Serum Co. for interstate sale and there will be no further need for a Research Sponsor." The vaccine will again be available this year as a combination product for EAE and abortion. It will cost $1.00 per dose. The vaccine is in an oil base and will cause somewhat of a lump at the injection site. The vaccine is absorbed slowly enough that one dose should stimulate an adequate immune response for the current year, Bagley said. (EAE) available to sheep producers. USU has served this function . the last two years. Dr. dell V. Bagley, extension veterinarian, some 9400 reports that in 1981-8doses were used in 21 flocks of sheep. The average abortion rate decrease to 1.5 percent compared to 9 percent the previous year in those flocks. In 1S32-87600 doses were used in 31 flocks and these data are still being collected and summarized. Bagley said the results of these past two years' experience appear very encouraging. The value of the vaccine is established. Utah's results correlate well with those of trials conducted previously by the University of Idaho. The EAE vaccine has not yet been licensed for interstate sale. Bagley explained, "That is the reason a Research Sponsor, such as USU, is necessary in order to distribute the vaccine and collect data on its use. A number of 2, He does recommend an annual booster vaccination since the duration of immunity is unknown. 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