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Show Production of Teachers Drops in Utah Schools The output of I'tah's six loachor preparation institutions has shown a sharp overall drop oven before the quota sv stem imposed by the State Hoard of Higher Kducation Kduca-tion j.oos into effect. According Ac-cording to preliminary figures released by Or. Yore A. McHenry, administrator ad-ministrator of the Division Div-ision of Instructional Support Services, I'tah State Hoard of Kducation, 2,9f3 individuals wore recommended for initial certification to the State Hoard of Kducation between be-tween September 1, 1971, and August 31, 1972, by the six institutions compared com-pared to 3,379 for the previous year. This represents rep-resents a not decrease of nearly 13 per cent. The overall supply of new elementary teachers from Utah preparing institutions in-stitutions was down approximately ap-proximately 12 per cent (from 1330 to 11 70) while the decrease for secondary second-ary personnel was only about 2-12 per cent (from 1716 to 1674). The balance of the decrease was in the ungraded category cat-egory (special education, i n s t r c t i o n a 1 media, counselors, etc.) where a change in reporting procedure apparently accounts ac-counts for much of the dramatic 67 per cent reduction re-duction (333 to 109). While the University of Utah reflected the sharpest reduction in the total number of teacher education graduates, part of the decrease was in the ungraded category whore the change in reporting re-porting procedure took place. The number of elementary el-ementary education graduates gra-duates was dow n 24.5 per cent while those prepared at the secondary level was up slightly (2.7 per cent). I'tah State University was down a total of 14.8 per cent (from 672 to 585). On the elementary level the decrease amounted am-ounted to 10.7 per cent, and secondary graduates were down by 17.9 per cent. The Weber State College Col-lege total was down slightlv . (7.5 per cent) from "214 to 19S. but a rather sharp decrease in elementa ry graduates (22.9 per cent) was somewhat some-what offset by a 7.3 per cent increase on the secondary sec-ondary level. Southern I'tah State College w as the only State institution to reflect an overall increase (from 132 to 152 or 15.2 per cent), but elementary education ed-ucation graduates were down nearly 10 per cent. Taken as a whole, Utah's four state-operated teacher education institutions graduated a total of 244 fewer prospective pros-pective teachers than a year previously, or a decrease de-crease of 14.3 per cent. The total decrease reported re-ported by the State institutions in-stitutions amounted to 115, or 17.7 per cent, on the elementary level and 33, or 3.8 per cent, on the secondary level. |