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Show Accrediting Group Expected to Warn High School on Crowded Conditions Principal Paul K. Walker of the Springville high school with other members of the State Committee for the Northwest Assn. of Secondary Secon-dary and Higher Schools, is making mak-ing visits to most of the high schools in the state during the remainder re-mainder of this month on accrediting accred-iting work for the Association. The Utah State Committee of the Northwest Association of Secondary Sec-ondary and Higher Schools, an organization or-ganization representing seven western wes-tern states and two territories, recently re-cently announced a policy which will require stricter adherence to Association standards if Utah high schools are to be accredited. This policy has been adopted as a result of actions taken by the regional asociation in which recommendations re-commendations of the state committee com-mittee have been ignored and schools have been given "approved but advised" or "approved but warned" status. The motive behind be-hind such regional action is to meet more fully the objectives of the organization which are: . . . the development of (educational (education-al policies and activities which will extend and improve educational education-al opportunities and services; development de-velopment of criteria of evaluation evalua-tion which will continually stimulate, stimu-late, evaluate and accredit vital educational effort; and promotion of cooperative relationships among secondary and higher institutions off learning in order to attain these ends . . . The Northwest Association has reciprocal relations rela-tions with the other accrediting associations, as-sociations, which means that students stu-dents transferring from one region to another will have their credits accepted in the same manner as they are accepted by institutions within their association. During the school vear 1955-56. sional preparation (teaching without with-out proper certification and or outside the major andor minor field), and inadequacy of the library li-brary budget and the librarian's training. Concerning the status of the three major high schools in Nebo district, principals of the schools have made reports as follows: Springville, Principal Paul Walker Springville's librarian has not completed all library courses needed for full accreditation accredita-tion but will soon. Although "terribly "ter-ribly overcrowded" in a building begun in 1912, Springville has not been "warned" because a new junior high school next year will relieve overcrowding. Teachers are all fully accredited and without excessive teaching load. Spanish Fork, Principal Angus Christensen Some minor items i might be improved, but generally Spanish Fork Senior High School, fully accredited in 1955, expects to receive the same this year without with-out "advice or warnings." The original or-iginal senior high plant, built in 1912, was added to in 1934 and 1940. Its library-is better than average, av-erage, classes are within maximum maxi-mum limitations, and Spanish expects ex-pects to be fully accredited again this year. Sometime within the next four or five years a new library li-brary may be added. Payson In the absence of Principal Prin-cipal Jones, who is ill, the district is preparing a report to the accrediting ac-crediting agencies, says assistant principal, Doyle Liddle. The school which serves Goshen, SanUujuin, Genola and Elberta, is jammed to capacity with -an entering class next year about 30 per cent larger larg-er than this year. Whether the present building built in 1912 and remodeled 17 years aga, could be expanded is an architectural problem, pro-blem, he said. Payson has a good library and fully accredited teachers, teach-ers, librarian and counselors, Some teachers have classes up to 40 students (25 is standard. Only three high schools in Utah county Spanish Fork, Provo and BY high expect full unqualified accredation this year although the schools will not know just how they stand until questionaries have been filed and reports returned sometime in the near future. sixty-five of Utah's eighty public and private high schools were members of the Northwest Association. Asso-ciation. Three member schools were warned, twenty-three were advised and thirty-nine were fully approved. Status in the Association is determined de-termined by the degree to which each school meets standards in buildings; library and laboratory, personnel, books and budget, records, re-cords, graduation units, school atmosphere, at-mosphere, preparation of teachers, teacher load, pupil load, athletics, school activity funds. In Utah the most common violations viola-tions are in teacher load, profes- |