Show CURRENT EXPENDITURES S PER PUPIL IN OVERAGE AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE INTHE 48 43 STATES K S rat VA N MA Ai 1 I N It I. I E JJ 4 MONt e CALIF CALI ew To 1 A AIL ILL ILLe I II e COr N tG 16 WA ASH SH t tl I. I Y 12 UI MINN IJ 11 ARIZ Ho I MASS WIS It 1 INO 11 7 10 WA WAIn In II icA S. S ws WIs aNaA 4 co aI I 22 2 COLO COL n as MICH 2 24 CA nAUa 11 NEil 1 pt PENN NN r 1 LA 1 N 30 V us u.s. AVEI 3 t OI LA ft I 34 3 FLA A c D A 31 Mae Ma e MAINE Jo 3 VA s VA t 41 NC all 42 2 TENN I C GA 44 S sc 4 1 KY AY 46 1 ALA Tax 1 Awl tai 41 AIS r a f oc UTAH ACHIEVES ECONOMY I l note This If la the me of I a series Irl of et l charts showing hewing how Utah Utah's education n compares comper with that thit o ot of th Oho other 47 states The charts wf wets re prepared by lh the Utah F Foundation from data rele 1 by Oh u. u I 9 r lt o Office n of Education C Utah Foundation lan reports will be b. 1 sent tant without i m charge Q to any Interested Interest citizen of U Utah upon directed to the Oh Utah Foundation n Darling Bid Bids Salt I m Lake city rt U I. I 11 Utah's per pupil expenditures In the public schools amounted to 56 for 50 1949 ranking among the 43 48 states The national average was and th the Mountain Moun Maull thin tain states average was The amount spent per pupil is not nat however a reliable measure of the quality of af education offered South Sauth Dakota for example spent per pupil compared to Utah's South Sauth Dakotas Dakota's high expenditure results from fram the fact that there are districts with 83 per cent of the schools being teacher one schools The teacher load laad Is In South Sauth Dakota compared to in Utah Among the Mountain states Colorado had 1533 school schaal districts Idaho Montana 1381 New Mexico Nevada Wyoming and Arizona Consolidation of Utah's school administration administration ad ministration Into 40 districts has enabled Utah to offer superior educational opportunities to an unusually large proportion of its population despite a relatively low law individual indi vidu vidual l i income |