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Show Title I Review Visit Held in Moab An evaluation of the Title I program in the Grand County School District was conducted on January 13 by a review team from the Utah State Board of Education. Kent Worthington. State Title 1 Director, accompanied by Jay Donaldson and Jerry Orgega, members of the state Title I staff visited the Title I program pro-gram in each elementary school, reviewed administrative administra-tive and financial data at the school district office, and met with the Grand County Title I Parent Advisory Council. Mr. Worthington reported that he found all administrative administra-tive and financial data in order. The format and procedures pro-cedures of operation of the local program met with approval. ap-proval. The individualized reading programs provided for target children as well as the appearance and atmosphere atmo-sphere of the instructional areas received excellent ratings. rat-ings. Recommendations made by the review team to district personnel included suggestions sugges-tions for working with larger groups of students to reduce the present per pupil cost. It was pointed out that federal guidelines require that Parent Advisory Councils must function func-tion in each Title I school as well as at the district level, and it was suggested that there be more involvement of individual school principals in the activities of the Parent Advisory Councils. These recommendations rec-ommendations will be considered consid-ered at the January 27 meeting meet-ing of the Parent Advisory Council. |