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Show Utah held own in retaining ( teacher-training graduates 416 teachers were employed 1 1 fill new posts, resulting froi the increase in school enrol ment, the trend toward reduce class size, etc. Foundation analysts not' that of the 1,491 new teacher employed iin Utah last vea a total of 225 taught the obvious ob-vious year in some othi ' state, while 1,266 did not teac anywhere in 1964-65. Near! one-fourth of the teachers untaught un-taught the preceding year ' some other state came froi California. Utah more than held its own in retaining teacher-training graduates last year. This observation ob-servation was made by Utah Foundation, the governmental research agency, in their latest study of teacher supply in Utah. The Foundation report points out that although only 63 of the teacher graduates from Utah institutions in 1965 were Utah residents, 71 of those who did accept teaching positions po-sitions last year signed contracts con-tracts with Utah school districts. dis-tricts. An important factor in this favorable balance in teacher tea-cher recruitment is the drawing power of Brigham Young University. Uni-versity. According to the report, a significant number of teacher-training teacher-training graduates do not enter the teaching profession immediately immed-iately upon graduation. However, How-ever, both the number and the percentage of teacher graduates gradu-ates accepting teaching posts in Utah have risen materially during recent years. Last year 1,175, or 53 of the teacher graduates trained in Utah colleges col-leges accepted positions in Utah. This compares with 297 nr 37 of the teacher frradu- ates who took teaching- jobs in Utah in 1954-55. A total of 1,491 new teachers were employed in Utah at the start of the 1965-66 school year, the report continues. Of these, 1,075 were hired to fill vacancies left by the resignation, resigna-tion, death, transfer, or retirement retire-ment of existing teachers, and |