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Show 5 Wednesday, November 8.1978 Page 12 . ; v Spending Up, Scores Down Achievement test scores of public school students have been declining in recent years, while expenditures per pupil for public education have been rising even faster than the inflation spiral, according to Utah Foundation, the private, non-profit research agency. This dual pattern has emerged in Utah as in the nation at large. The ratio of test score to dpllars-per-pupil expenditurein expen-diturein constant dollars to eliminate the effects of inflationnationally in-flationnationally declined nearly 47 between 1960 and 1978, the Foundation reported repor-ted in a research brief released this week. In Utah, the ratio of achievement test scores to (constant) dollars per pupil declined 28 in the 1967-1977 decade. :"It is recognized that this ratio is not an exact measure, and that many factors come into the picture, pic-ture, but there does appear td be evidence of declining scholastic achievement in the face of steadily rising education expenditures," the Foundation points out. ''This poses a major challenge to the premise long advanced by some educators, which postulates that educational quality is directly related to per-pupil expenditure. This premise has long been questioned in Utah, where the prevalence of large families makes for an unusually large school enrollment compared to total populaton. Utah's per-pupil per-pupil expenditure for public education has historically been below the national average despite the fact that Utah has stood at or near the top of the list of states in terms of personal income devoted to education and per-taxpayer effort in support sup-port of schools." The national publication of U.S. News and World Report recently pointed to mounting taxpayer resistance as exemplified by California's Proposition 13, placing a squeeze on public school financing. A result has been the development of a cost-benefit cost-benefit analysis by taxpayers tax-payers to make sure their money is bringing a reasonable return. "This confrontation between bet-ween taxpayer revolt and the public school record of rising cost and declining achievement appears to be a little slower in reaching Utah than some other parts of the nation," the Foundation Foun-dation notes. 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