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Show Big Proportion of Teachers Are Forsaking Utah Schools Last year 902 Utah educators resigned their positions and over 400 left to teach in private schools, the public schools of other states, or to business or other professions. Those leaving to teach elsewhere comprise one third of Utah's total annual need according to a study of the Utah Education Association released today. The study was tabulated by Research Services, Inc., a private pri-vate research agency. According to the study, 56.7 per cent of the teachers leaving I Utah to teach elsewhere will teach this year in California, 3.8 per cent will teach in Washington, Washing-ton, and 1.9 per cent will teach in Oregon. Less than a fourth leaving Utah to teach elsewhere will teach this year in the seven mountain states fo Idaho, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado Colo-rado and New Mexico. ' A large proportion of those teachers who left Utah classrooms class-rooms last year said that a primary pri-mary reason for leaving was inadequate in-adequate salaries. The study shows that those leaving Utah to teach in other states will receive re-ceive an average of $1,429 over their Utah salary of last year. Those teaching in private and parochial schools will receive an average of $737 over last year's teaching salaries in Utah. Of those leaving to enter business busi-ness or other professions, average aver-age earnings this year exceed last year's Utah teaching salary by an average of $1,737. Of the teachers leaving the Utah school system to assume home responsibilities, a large number indicated that they may eventually return to the classroom. class-room. However, the more than 400 who left to teach in the school systems of other states indicated in-dicated that it is not very likely that they will return to teaching teach-ing in Utah. Of the 902 teachers leaving the Utah school system last year, approximately one-third one-third left to assume home responsibilities. re-sponsibilities. Approximately another an-other third left to assume teaching teach-ing positions in private schools and public schools outside of Utah. The remaining third left to enter some other business or profession, get further education, to retire, or because of death. Questionnaires were mailed to every teacher who withdrew his money from the State Teachers retirement System during the school year 1956-57. Approximately Approxi-mately 60 per cent of those who left responded to the questionnaire. question-naire. The remaining 40 per cent were divided in the same proportion propor-tion as the 60 per cent who responded. |