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Show Education must improve Although Governor Norman Bangerter's state operating budget for the 1990-91 fiscal year commits $164 million in added funding for education, this generous package has reform strings attached to it, states a research report prepared by the Utah Foundation, a private, nonprofit public service agency established es-tablished to study and encourage the study of state and local government govern-ment in Utah, and the relation of taxes and public expenditures to the Utah economy. Accountability would focus on educational outcomes to let the public pub-lic know where the system is and where it is going. The governor's program would require the following: follow-ing: 1. Utah would participate with approximately three-fourths of the other states in the National Assessment Assess-ment for Education Progress , (NAEP) program which attempts to measure achievement results. 2. Students in grades 3 through 6 and all secondary students would be tested in the core subjects of math, science and reading as they complete com-plete the core requirements. 3. Results of the NAEP and the core tests would be published by school, district, and state so that parents and the general public can determine how the students are progressing. pro-gressing. 4. Exceptional achievement would be recognized and rewarded. The governor hopes to give local districts greater control and flexibility flexibil-ity in the following ways: 1. Districts could voluntarily participate par-ticipate in block grant programs which would give local districts greater autonomy in making education edu-cation decisions. 2. More administrative decisions would be shifted from the State Office Of-fice of Education to the local school districts. Local districts could contract con-tract with the State Office for needed need-ed services provided by it. 3. Qualified persons who are not certified may be employed by schools on a temporary basis. After a successful one-year internship, such teachers can be certified. 4. Local districts would be allowed to provide added funds from a locally-controlled leeway program within the 10-mill ceiling. If local voter approval is obtained, the stale would provide added state aid. |
