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Show Council meeting features talk on education Springville women's organizations organi-zations were well represented at the monthly meeting of the Legislative Council in Provo, Thursday of last week. Kay Allen of Salt Lake City was the speaker. As a member of the subcommittee sub-committee t". study education in the state legislature, Mr. Allen Al-len outlined the education picture pic-ture in Utah and said that our state has always greatly supported sup-ported education. Today we. have a good school program in Utah because of good basic philosophy of the role of education handed down from the early Mormon pioneers; pio-neers; a good consolidation program which eliminates inefficiency in-efficiency of too many small districts; and a good school equalization program. He pointed out that in Utah a greater per cent of the .population .pop-ulation graduates from high school; a higher per cent attends at-tends college, and in Utah, a higher per cent of income is allocated to education than any other state. "The legislature has the problem of keeping taxes down and still allocating more for education. The question is how much are we willing to pay for education?" he asked. He explained the school finance fi-nance law as it now stands and said there is a desire and need to simplify the formula. There will be no meeting of the council in January. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 6, 1964, Mrs. Russell Blackett, president, announced. an-nounced. President Margaret Blackett of Springville, was in charge of the meeting. |