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Show SCHOOL BOARD HEARS REPORT ON PTA SURVEY The Jordan District Board of Education Ed-ucation at their last meeting on Thursday, Oct. IS, gave approval to rough sketches of an eight-room addition to the Butler Elementary School, and approved construction of a concrete curb in the Hillcrest High School football stadium. The board also heard a report on the result of a questionnaire survey of PTA member in the district dis-trict regarding current education issues. Mrs. James C. Thompson, Draper, Dra-per, PTA Council president, made the report on the survey. The board gave its approval for . architects to begin detailed drawings draw-ings on the Butler school addition. 1 Une or the eight rooms in the addition ad-dition will be a library. The concrete curb in the Hill-crest Hill-crest Football Stadium will cost $2,878.00. In reporting result of the survey sur-vey in which responses were received re-ceived from 3,494 questionnaires, Mr. Thompson said the results indicated in-dicated the following preference by school patrons: Those answering the question-naire question-naire by a large margin said they favored increasing the financial support of Utah schools to bring the amount expended per pupil to the average of the seven surrounding surround-ing mountain state. A majority of the returns said they thought funds should come from the state rather than federal or local sources. A majority also said they did not believe teacher' salaries are adequate, ade-quate, and a majority said teachers' teach-ers' salaries should be determined by performance. |