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Show Ramp ton Raps Limits On Federal Aid to Education "If federal school aid is limited to capital construction, the most vital need of Utah's school system sys-tem will be ignored," Calvin L. Rampton, 1 candidate for Democratic Demo-cratic nomination for U. S. Senator Sen-ator told the 17th Legislative District Study Group Thursday. "In the past several years the teachers and buildings have actually ac-tually been in competition for the educational dollar within the state of Utah. Stress has been put on capital improvements, with the result that in most districts dis-tricts building space is nearing adequacy. However, in the same period the real wages of teachers as measured by a standard of living index has declined." Mr. Rampton referred to figures fig-ures in the Tribune editorial of Thursday morning as showing a need for federal aid to supplement supple-ment teachers' salaries. "The state of New York spends only 3.7 per cent of its personal income in-come on education, but this yields $585 per pupil. On the other hand, Utah spends 5.5 per cent of its personal income on education but this yields only $340 per pupil. Minimum teachers' teach-ers' salaries in the state of New York are $4800 in Utah that figure is $3900. In order to raise our per pupil expenditure to the level of New York state it would require 9.5 per centof Utah's personal income. Mr. Rampton asserted that the school aid program which passed the United States Senate last session and is now bottled up in the Rules Committee will bring to Utah approximately $600 per class room unit. "If this amount were devoted principally to the teachers' salaries it would go a long way toward erasing the inequities in-equities which exist between salaries in Utah and average salaries in the 11 western states, Mr. Rampton concluded. |
