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Show Teacher Turnover is High In Grand, Survey Shows iGrand School District experienced a turnover of 26 persons, or 27.7 percent per-cent in the number of pro--, fessional school personnel . emiploiyied last lear. This was pointed out in an analysis an-alysis by Utah Foundation of data gathered by the State Board of Education. The study shows that altogether al-together Grand School Dis trict employed 44 teach):rs and other educators in 1966-67. This represented an increase of 6 from the number working for the district during the preceding preced-ing school year. A total of 32 school employees were new to the district last, vear. Foundation analysts note that a total of 1.834 new professional personnel were employed by all Utah school last year. Of these, 5S0 were hired to fill new posts with the remaining 1,254 signed to fill vacancies vacan-cies resulting from the death, resignation, transfer, trans-fer, or retirement of existing exist-ing teachers. Most of the openings for new teachers in Utah, according ac-cording to the study, are filled by recent graduates of Utah's six teacher train ing insti tuitions. Of the 1, 834 new teachers employed employ-ed last year, 1,319, or 72 percent were 1966 graduates grad-uates of Utah's colleges, 295 had taught the previous pre-vious year in some other state, with the remaining 220 consisting of former teachers returning to teach ing or teacher graduates from former years entering enter-ing the teaching ranks for the first time. California supplies nearly one-fourth the teachers who taught the previous year in some other state. The report mentions that a majority of the out-of-state teachers who returned return-ed to Utah last year had some previous attachment to the State, such as having hav-ing attended college at one of the Utah schools. Utah more than held its own in retaining its teacher-graduates last year. Although Al-though only 65 per cent of the 1966 teacher graduates grad-uates were residents of U-tah; U-tah; 75 per cent of those that did teach last year accepted teaching posts in the State. The report suggests sug-gests that the drawing power of Brigham Young University is the major fac tor in this favorable balance bal-ance in teacher recruitment. |