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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, December 30, 2004- Parents participate in holiday celebration at Westside Elementary nr.-: .y . J -h , 1 IV I 1 r 1- . J K 1 ! 3 -J On the afternoon of Tues- played chimes while singing day, December 21st, the noli- holiday favorites. day celebration was in full-swine full-swine at Westside Elemen tary. Parents, grandparents ana family members of all ages came to participate in the holiday celebration. Students and parents rotated rotat-ed through a variety of stations sta-tions throughout the afternoon. after-noon. They read Christmas books with one another, played Christmas bingo, and There were dance and movement activities, a story read by Westside's principal, Susan Huff, and even Christmas Christ-mas karaoke. Westside's business partner, Nestle" USA, donated cookies for the event. Parents, teachers and students enjoyed sharing shar-ing the holiday celebration with one another. Everyone had fun at the dance activity that took place during last Tuesdays holiday celebration at Westside Elementary. Family members mem-bers and students all took part in the event. What do you know about Tuition Tax Credits? XV,A :a Mykal Johnson and father Jack Johnson play Bingo during the West-side West-side School's Holiday Celebration. Many parents and community com-munity members have questions ques-tions about proposed Utah legislation called Tuition Tax Credits.Jn the past, several sev-eral different bills have been presented, but none have passed the Utah State Legislature. Legis-lature. However, with a new governor gov-ernor and some new legislators, legisla-tors, increased pressure is being felt to pass this particular partic-ular legislation. Basically a tuition tax credit gives a family the option op-tion of enrolling one or more of their children in a private school and then claiming approximately ap-proximately $2,000 of those private school tuition costs as a direct credit against the state taxes they owe in any given year. A - i f ' J r-iuV ! "'I , -mmm- , , - - , . , - : Mimf"--ff-" in x. ! The camcorders came out as Westside Elementary School's kindergarten classes performed a Christmas program for packed audiences this week. As a part of the core curriculum for kindergarten kinder-garten students learn music and performance skills, and the children had the opportunity to demonstrate what they had learned for their families and friends. The program included a variety of holiday music and recitations by the students. All of the morning and afternoon kindergarten classes participated in both daytime and evening performances, and were well received by an appreciative ap-preciative audience each time. 1 ' Keep a firm hand on the throttle of your train of thought. - Arnold Glasow Don't squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of . - Benjamin Franklin Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. -Leonardo da Vinci The latest version of the bill makes the credit refundable. refund-able. In other words, if a family does not owe the full $2,000 in state taxes, they would receive re-ceive a check back from the state for the difference between be-tween their taxes and the amount of the allowed credit. cred-it. Most versions of tuition tax credits have also included includ-ed a Scholarship Granting Organization(SGO) through which individuals and companies com-panies could contribute towards to-wards scholarships for children chil-dren to attend private school. These donations would also receive a dollar for dollar dol-lar credit against the individual's individ-ual's or company's state tax obligation. By comparison, donations to other charitable causes receive re-ceive considerably less tax credit than would be allowed when ontributing to an SGO. This inequity could lead to those charitable organizations organiza-tions receiving significantly less contributions. No other state has tried such a large and refundable credit to entice families to send their children to private school. Much research and analysis analy-sis has been done to try to determine the actual monetary mone-tary effect of tuition tax credits on state public education educa-tion budgets. Results differ among the studies. However, all of the analyses hinge on the basic premise of how many parents par-ents will actually choose the private school option. We currently have about 3 or 15,000 of our children in Utah attending private schools, the lowest percentage percent-age in the nation. These students do not receive re-ceive any public funding for their education. Unless tuition tu-ition tax credits cause a significant sig-nificant number of current and future public school families to choose to send their children to private school in the next 10 years, the state could end up granting grant-ing the tax credit to every family that would have already al-ready elected to send their children to private school. The cost would be an additional addi-tional $30 million a year out of state public school funds without achieving the intended in-tended savings. Information courtesy of the Utah School Boards Association As-sociation and Nebo School District STRONG CD RAZE. WITH AN EVEN STRONGER GUARANTEE. Get a guaranteed yield with a Cenificaie of Deposit from Stale Farm Bank. It's a secure place lo grow your money. 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