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Show pils or less. Utah has but 23 one-room one-room schools out of its 519. This is 4.4 percent, the lowest ratio in the nation with the exception of Rhode Island and Connecticut. From the facts presented, it seems that a common adequate yardstick of value has not been used From where we sit, we cannot can-not fully accept the reliability of the conclusions as to either needs or capacity to meet such needs. i Tax Association Comments on School Problems Dr. Adam S. Bennion, has been appointed chairman of a task force of renouned Americans to study weighty school problems and to formulate recommendations for solving. To aid them in their important work, the department of health, education and welfare,-has welfare,-has assembled many facts, some of which are presented, herewith by- the Utah Taxpayers' Association Associa-tion to assist people in understanding under-standing some important school problems. A report by the association associa-tion follows: State differ greatly in tooth the quality and quantity of education. Even wider differences are manifest mani-fest in the value received for each dollar spent. Many states are woefully woe-fully inefficient and wasteful. As a result, large numbers of pupils are receiving sub-standard education educa-tion even though, in many instances, instan-ces, high costs prevail. The comparison com-parison of dollar costs for the operation op-eration of various school systems has only a general relationship to the quality of educational output, thereof. This can be. documented. Adequacy of school plants, as measured by pupils in those rated as satisfactory, according to the report mentioned, has but a casual cas-ual relationship to vwealth or income in-come of the state. Also, the rating rat-ing has little bearing on the school organization as shown in "one-room" "one-room" schools. "Satisfactory" ratings rat-ings vary from 4.2 percent in New Mexico to 78.3 percent in Delaware. Dela-ware. Nevada, one of the richest states is 21.6 percent while Mississippi, Miss-issippi, one of the poorest, has 23.6 percent of her pupils "satisfactorily" "satis-factorily" housed. California's rate is just a fraction higher or 54.0 percent. Then South Dakota, which has 84.7 percent of her schools with but one room, shows 56.4 percent as "satisfactorily" housed. Current new construction needs, as shown by the surveys made in 43 states having 80 percent of the total school enrollment, is $7.4 billion plus $360 million for sites and improvements thereon. This is. apportioned as follows: obsolescence obsoles-cence $3.1 billion, over-crowding, $1.7 billion, to provide for enrollment enroll-ment increases $1.2 billion, added facilities $1.4 billion. In the past three years over $4 bililon have been spent for capital outlay in the country. In the same period Utah has spent $30 million for such purposes. One-room schools: In the 43 states mentioned. 43 percent of all school buildings contained but one room. The attendance in such schools, however ,was but 5 percent per-cent of the total enrollment. In South Dakota 84.77 percent of all schools were one-room schools in which 25.13 percent of all pupils were enrolled. NorUi Dakota was not far behind. In Nebraska, for example, in 1951-52 there were 589 one-room schools with 5 pu- |