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Show Page 6 schools in general is below the national average, therefore a special effort must be made to improve the teaching of reading. (4) Perceptual acuity of some children is impaired. One wonders education Federal For how ‘perceptual acuity’ was explained to the non-professionals Funds on the committee. Testing perceptual and motor skills Compensatory for was. financed by Title | in target area schools, but what has been done to secure improvement in these skills in disadvantaged children? ~ Education @ (5) By Mary Adams Jones Children have formed inadequate concepts. — (6) Children lack problem solving skills. (7) Will the Tile | Advisory Children do not accept ~ Committee have any effect on how responsibility for their own Title | funds are used in local learning. These last appear to be schools? e administrative priorities, not a Two members of that reflection of the combined input committee, Mrs. Suzanne Weiss, of all segments of the advisory parent representative, and Mr. J.B. committee. | Steward, NAACP representative, And what are the priorities as upon seeing how small the impact devised by the Title ! Advisory on projects approved: for Title | Committee for the 1970/71 school funding as made public in April year? Dr. Ball announced in the asked in June the following yet April meeting the allocation of unanswered questions of Dr. LaVar Title | funds as follows: listening Sorensen, Salt Lake City assistant stations, reading materials for superintendent of schools and at teachers, summer school for slow that time chairman of the learners at Title | schools, purchase committee: of paperback books to be given to What is the purpose of the Title children, a 5-week outdoor summer | Advisory Committee? How much program at Scofield, Carbon and what kind of information County for 100 to 120 boys staffed should the committee have on by three Salt Lake teachers and Carbon County cooks and helpers, tuition for one teacher from each school to attend the Workshop on Mexican-Americans, one Seven priority needs to which kindergarten teacher from each _ Title | funds were to be applied in school to attend the workshop on the 1969/70 school year were Early Childhood Education, reading identified by Dr. Darlene Ball, Title specialists and remedial reading ! Coordinator, as follows: (1) teachers. It cannot be ascertained Negative attitudes of children that these services were to be toward themselves, their peers and restricted to children and teachers their school, Reports published in in the seven elementary. schools which to base decisions? What are Title | program objectives? How is communityinvolvement encouraged? the Spring and Summer issues of designated WORDPOWER articulating Nowhere as Title 1! schools, in the recorded complaints against the schools by deliberations of the = advisory minority and _ welfare mothers committee does one find indicate that the school itself is discussions of the merits of these responsible for isolating and proposals, assenting and dissenting Demeaning poor children, thus Opinions, alternatives. affecting their achievement thru A decision was made in March to induced negative attitudes. (2) Lack of skill in the use of language, particularly oral expression. The school board has yet to include bi-lingual classes for Spanish-speaking children. This project. request was again passed over in the February meeting altho -the Spanish-American enrollment exceeds 40% in three Title | schools. Every teacher aide in these schools — Jackson, Jefferson and Sumner — should be of Mexican concentrate Franklin, Title Jackson, ! funds to Jefferson, Riverside, Sumner, Washington and Webster elementary schools, Why then did.the Education Editor of the Desert News report on June 10, 1970 that more than $1 million in ‘federal funds will be spent to boost educational opportunities particularly in these schools and in Lincoln, Horace Mann and Jordan priority groupings of children. within the chosen areas and further levels or to a special needs categories; (3) design a comprehensive program that will meet the most pressing needs of each child in the priority groups, utilizing all available local, state and federal resourses; (4) plan. the program so that by 1970 the average Title | expenditure per child in high priority areas is raised to a significant level. Compare these - guides with the stated goals. Why is it so difficult to identify priorities well? Even- the Mr. J. B. Stewart, committee member, offered suggestions in: his SYSTEMS APPROACH TO THE TITLE | PROGRAM and MAKING THE TITLE !t ADVISORY COMMITTEE WORK which may change this situation. He was ‘elected chairman in September. The committee has since received ' Title | schools also. It is recognized resource information from that the reading levels, not only of pamphlets, but most important, poor children, but in Utah public from Dr. Craig Kennington, community compensatory education such as Granger School Adopt New Programs SOCIO. The committee's specific functions are: (1) supply by Rhoda Werner INFORMATION NUMBER focus the program to certain grade when the drop-out rate is so high in the brown and black student groups? Indian student attendance in Salt Lake City schools is only .5%. What does that figure indicate? as funded projects such as Model Cities, and representatives of other neighborhood based organizations with a= part icular interest in information concerning the views Granger elementary school of parents and children about the Granite school district has new | schools. Other materials have been unmet educational needs in the report cards this year and new requested to facilitate the work of Title | project areas and establish inte gration pictures packets of all the Advisory Committee, such as priorities among those needs; (2) races. | the original proposals and goals recommend a general plan for the Rather than allowing the pupil previously set for local Title | concentration of funds in specific to fail, it will reduce the difficulty schools, which have not yet been schools and grade levels; (3) of the learning task, utilize presented. The committee as it now participate in the development of alternate materials for instruction functions will measure its progress proposals which are particularly and/or extend the time for toward goals it sets. adapted to bridging the gap completion until the child meets Annual grants are made to local between the needs of the pupils and with success. school districts to develop and the curriculum of the school; (4) Rather. than allowing a pupil to implement projects to meet the make written comments to be waste time studying material special needs of educationally forwarded with the application — already known, the teachers will deprived children. It has been concurring or dissenting; (Note that increase the difficulty of the pupil found by the US. Office of to date, the advisory committee has task until a student is challenged. Education that Titel | programs are not reviewed proposals before their The grade level of material each more effective when (1) Title | submittal for funding.) (5) act as a student is studying is reported by expenditures are concentrated hearing committee for suggestions numeral. The quality of the rather than spread; (2) not just one, to improve compensatory students performances or but a comprehensive group of education, to hear complaints scholarship is reported by A services is provided to meet the about the program and make (Superior): By Good) S needs of each of the educationally recommedations for its (Satisfactory.) Citizenship rates are deprived children involved; (3) improvement; (6) particiapte in 1. Honor, 2. Satisfactory, and 3. services are maintained over an appraisals of the program. Needs Improvement. extended period of time; (4) _ It will be interesting to see how Letter grades are not shown services: are intergrated into a total near the Salt -Lake City Title | until a student has completed school program that includes new Advisory Committee comes to sufficient work of acceptable approaches to the education of meeting the above criteria, the quality, upon which to base a disadvantagedchildren. This is what amount of cooperation for the city passing grade. : Title | is all about. Why, when this and state Title | specialists, and Included in the picture packets information has been around since especially to see how — if at all — it are beautiful colored pictures of all 1968, are Title | funds still being influneces the funding proposals for races. The races are represented as diluted, as Mr. Stewart charges, to the 1971/72 school year. Watch policemen, firemen, doctors, etc., the extent that the projects funded WORDPOWER for periodic reports helping one another in the business make no appreciable difference in and analyses of the progress made of daily living and activity. | the educational needs of poor in compensatory education, the The program is working well at children in Salt Lake City schools? program devised to narrow the gap Granger elementary. Children are OE recommeds: (1) Focus between poor children and_ their encouraged to be _ successful and resources On a number of children schoolmates. important. in the target population — those in the most impov erished school attendance. areas; (2) identify high schools representatives of the poor in other federally the Administration building to Title of junior high schools, South and West feritage. The classroom teachers projects named in the article differ ‘should be Spanish speaking. from those mentioned earlier in this _. (3) Children read below grade article. The Title ! Advisory level. Reading specialists remedy Committee ‘is the last to know’? this; yet the proposal for providing reading specialists for Title | schools was first made in February. The concept of Title | is to give more help to those who traditionally receive less, therefore general revenues, if used to provide reading specialists in some schools, should be spent for this purpose in Specialist, Title |, ESEA, Utah State Board of Education. The group has established working committees with specific responsibilities and goals in the areas of Program Design, Program Objectives, Curricula and Materials, Achievement; Community Involvement, Incentive and a special sub-committee on Dropouts. It has moved its meetingplace from OE further states that local advisory committees will need to be established for the _ planning, operation and appraisal of a comprehensive compensatory education program, with at least 50% of its membership comprised of parents of disadvantaged chldren attending projects schools where Title | will be conducted, Do you have a complaint, a comment or a the Salt Lake City Schools? Call 322-1471, will be assisted in obtaining the information -your comment will be taken to the proper reply. compliment for ext. 223. You you require, or department for We need... ladies who want to be Medical Receptionists or |.B.M. Operators. High School Diploma not required and age is no factor. WE’LL TRAIN & QUALIFY YOU! JOB PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE UPON GRADUATION! LIFE-TIME REFRESHER PRIVILEGES! CALL NOW 328-1681 FOR A PERSONAL COURSE INTERVIEW: |