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Show Duchesne, Daggett classes grow Elementary school classes in Duchesne School District average 28.27 students this year, according to Utah Educational Association Research Director Don Ulmer. The district's average elementary class size last year was 25.84 students, he said. Elementary school classes in Daggett School District average 15.88 students this year. The district's average elementary class size last year was 20.17 students, Ulmer said. The UEA surveyed every elementary class in state Oct. 1, 1981 to determine the number of students enrolled. Ulmer said the statewide average class size for elementary classes this year is 27.29 students up from last year's average of 26,97 students. 2 GLASS PROMT OK a GLAS SCKEEH IWSTALLEP OVER AN OPEH FIREPLACE CAM PREVENT THE LOSS OF WARM AIR THPoikSH "THE FLUE AMP TILL PfJ6.ewT YOU WITH THE BEAUTY OF A PIPE. The Legislature, after placing a law on the books which set a goal of 24 students per class in the kindergarten through third grades, lessened the state's dedication this year to smaller classes, he added. 'The lawmakers did this by removing the mandate for reducing class sizes and forcing the program to compete with others for funding-funding funding-funding that was reduced by one-third," Ulmer said. "For years, Utah schools have had the largest class size in the entire nation," he said, adding that smaller classes in the kindergarten kin-dergarten through third grade "are critically important to boys and girls who are learning to read, to work arithmetic problems and to write. Each one needs plenty of attention from the tpacher." "At least part of the blame for this increase in class size is due to backsliding on the part of the Utah State Legislature after that body made an earlier commitment to reducing the size of classes in Utah," Ulmer said. Duchesne School District's average 1981-82 class size breakdown by grades is kindergarten, 28.14 students; first grade, 26.31 students; second grade, 27.73 students; third grade, 26.64 students; fourth grade, 30.10 students; fifth grade, 30.30 students and sixth grade, 26,80 students. Daggett School District's average 1981-82 class size breakdown by grades is kindergarten, 14 students, third grade, 10 students; fourth grade, 13 students; fifth grade, 10 students and sixth grade 10 students. |