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Show York (4.1), Florida (6.0), Minnesota (5.3), Nebraska (5.5), Pennsylvania (5.1), Rhode Island (5.4), Missouri (7.5), Wisconsin (4.1), and the District of Columbia (7.3) Federal aid to schools of Nebo District shows marked increase true in the case of the formula used to distribute school aid under the Federal elementary and secondary act of 1965. The amount of Federal aid is in many cases not related either to the capacity or the effort ef-fort of the respective states to support their own public schools. For example, the state of Illinois which devotes only 3.0 of its personal income to support of the public schools, lowest effort among all of the states, and with per capita income in-come of $3,280 second high among the states in income per school child, received 4.2 of its total school operating expenditures ex-penditures from the Federal general aid allotment. Among top Utah in contrast, with a per capita income of $2,355, ranking rank-ing 41st among the 50 states in income per school child, and spending 5.4 of its income for public school operations (among the top three in effort) received only 2.4 of the current costs for school operations from its Federal allotment. This was less than 60 of the relative aid received by the state of Illinois. The states of New Federal funds accounted for $219,522 or 4.15 of the total revenue of $5,289,542 (excluding (exclud-ing school lunch) received by the Nebo School District during dur-ing the 1965-1966 school year. This was disclosed in a special spec-ial study of Federal aid in the Utah schools just completed complet-ed by Utah Foundation, the private pri-vate 1 government research organizational or-ganizational research organization. organiza-tion. According to the Foundation report, Federal aid to Utah's forty school districts totaled $10,317,123 or 6.7 of the total to-tal revenue (excluding school lunch funds) received by all districts last year. When school lunch funds are included, Federal Fed-eral aid (including the value of commodities) amounted to $13, 404,651, or 8.1 of all local school district revenue. The study points out that even more significant than the district Federal contributions to local school budgets is the influence in-fluence of Federal funds in the operations of the State School Office. Approximately 69 of the operating budget of Utah Department of Public Instruction Instruc-tion this year will come from Federal funds. Much of the direction di-rection of the direction for local lo-cal school operations stems from policies formulated in the State School Office. Aid increases Foundation analysts note that Federal aid for local schools in Utah has increased 3.7 times (26 rise) since 1960, compared com-pared with a 73 increase in total school revenue. A large part of this increase is the result re-sult of new Federal "war on poverty" programs such as the manpower development act, the economic opportunity act, and the elementary and secondary education act. Despite the substantial increase in-crease in Federal school aid received re-ceived during recent years, the report states that Utah derives a smaller proportion of its revenue rev-enue from Fedearl sources than do most other states. According to the latest estimates prepared prepar-ed by the National Education Association, Utah ranks 37th among the 50 states in the percentage per-centage of its total school revenue rev-enue from Federal sources. A major reason for the relatively rel-atively low ranking of Utah in the receipt of Federal funds according ac-cording to the Utah Foundation study is that Federal allocation formulae for distributing school aid are in most cases unfavorable unfavor-able for Utah. This is especially |