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Show One-teacher schools in Utah decrease Only six states have fewer one-teacher schools than Utah. This was revealed today by Allan M. West, Executive Secretary Sec-retary of the Utah Education Association, from a study by the Research Division of the National Education Association entitled, "One-Teacher Schools Today." Utah has only 19 one-teacher schools. States with fewer are: Connecticult with none, Rhode Island with one, New Jersey with two, Massachusetts and South Carolina with 14 and Georgia with 16. There were 23,695 one-teacher schools in the U.S. in 1958-59, according to the Study. This is an 88 percent decrease in the number of one-teacher schools in the 40-year period from 1918-19 to 1958-59. The number of one-teacher schools in the Western States are: Arizona, 50; California, 300; Colorado, 203; Idaho, 70; Montana, 820; Nevada, 41; New Mexico, 43; Oregon, 86; Utah, 19; Washington, 81; Wyoming, 287. Forty years ago Utah was among the four states with the fewest one-teacher schools with 138. The other three leading lead-ing states and the number of one-teacher schools were: Rhode Island (112), Arizona (287) and Nevada (314). Thirty six states decreased the number of one-teacher schools by 1,000 between 1917-18 1917-18 and 1958-59. |