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Show Page 4A Lakeside Review Wednesday, June 3, 1981 Editorial Simpl- e- tOHeNifte BANK HAS lOfW Remember School Goals It has been rewarding to watch during the last few weeks the honors given to a large number of students in the Lakeside Review students won scholarships and other school of these are people who are in positions, where recognize the importance of encouraging good scholarship than it is, for instance, during the long winter months of January and February or the busy Ifs M0N& ,.1HM BUSINESS CHARGE Passes its higher MORElWfERgSfOfO RMS BUSmsUXNS... y weupib. Eight their careers are hurt by COSTS ONlt) CONSUMERS 8V RAISING PRICES. . . WlMxi? this inability to comat municate It is perhaps-easie- r effectively. awards, and outstanding this time of year to Some are in positions athletes were recognized. Even in the elementary and junior high schools the progress of students was noted. We also note with satisfaction the extra involvement of teachers and administrators who encourage good performace and go out of their way to IfHASfO mm language. Some English MORE POR HIGH help students achieve. never learned to spell or Their interest is felt otherwise handle the sometimes through their contacts with our office where they brag about the High students achievements. area. coverage Hoo)do where they influence the youth to represent themselves poorly. Thats a 'real shame,1 with the resources at our y season. So command. maybe now is the time for educational administratoThe Davis School Board rs to review their goals and somehow find direc- is looking at year-roun- d tion for all the small items schools and other ideas which, taken together, which might save money y form the bulk of their during these pre-holida- Letter to The Editor tight-mone- times. We encourage saving all the money work. Let us look at the as he enters college, as he graduates from college and looks for a job, and perhaps most importantly as he reviews his employment needs two years after he get his first job. We believe he will need a strong foundation in the Review Editor; Saturday May 16, 1981, one of the most fantastic events held was at Layton Hills Mall. for Muscular It was a Hair The following salons Dystrophy. participated: Audrenes, Hair Connection, Pat Caves Magic Mirror and Fran Brown & Company. Also two independent hairdressers Pat Brough and Bill Moreno. Sixteen hairdressers cut 279 heads of hair and raised $1,160 in four hours. Also many thanks to Nell Fretwell who handled all cash. All I can say to these hairdressers is You are the greatest and to the clients thank you. It was fun. Well do it again. Fran Brown cut-a-th- Increased Productivity Could Help Utah Schools By Edwin Feulner President. Heritage Foundation Its amazing how the prospect of cash bonuses promotes office comradery and loyalty among senior federal bureaucrats. (The less charitable among us .) or might call it cronyism, palsy-walsyism- A centerpiece of former President Carters crusade for civil service reform was the creation of an elite Senior Executive Service (a corps drawn from three supergrades of the career civil service, and two much-publiciz- sub-cabin- et political ranks). SES managers give up certain civil service benefits, but are eligible for substantial bonuses to supplement their $50, salaries, as a reward for superior performance. 000-pl- Twenty percent of an agencys SES executives are eligible for bonuses of up to 20 percent of their salary. And another six percent of the career SES executives (lets not be too generous with the outsiders) may be Meritorious or Executives knighted as Presidential Executives" and given cash awards of 0 d (sort of like becoming a d or distributor for Amway). The paperwork basis on which all SES awards are dispensed is a system of performance appraisals. Each agency works up its own criteria for bonus awards (with a cursory check by the Office of Personnel Management to assure compliance with the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act), and an agencys senior executives, in effect, determine the size of bonuses they pass around to one another. No sales figures, no profit or loss statements embarrassing t'nyone. $10,000-$20,00- Utah taxes for school support may have to be increased substantially unless unit costs in the schools can be significatly reduced, according to Utah Foundation, the private, nonprofit research organization. Such a tax increase might be forced despite strong public sentiment for tax reduction. Modern research and technological development have opened the way to increasing productivity in the school system, and may be used to solve a large part of the problem, the Foundation notes in a Research Brief released this week. In private industry, increased worker compensation can be conomically justified over the long run only by increased worker the Foundation notes. This productivity, raises questions concerning the economics of education. In the school system, an in r. back-scratchi- In May 1980 the Virginia Electric and Power k Company announced a program of its own: it cut the salaries of its top 150 executives between eight and 10 percent as an incentive for them to make the utility more efficient; they are to get back the pay cuts plus a bonus this year if they have managed to improve the company's earnings. But of course, that approach would never work in a government agency. They dont have any profit margins, remember. .? available state dollars for other programs have significantly changed the outlook for school financing. The 1981, Utah Legislature appropriated $200,000 for a study of school productivity and possible; ways of increasing it. .Many educators, legislators, and concerned citizens were already busy seeking ways to get more for the states educational dollar. A paper entitled Staff Utilization and significant loss of educatonal quality, by , Educational Technology: Means of Meeting Enrollment Increases in Utah Schools By utilizing ideas, techniques, - and electronic devises developed in recent years. Dr. Richard Kendall, Dr. William Carlisle, Utah currently is in a financial position and Dr. Michael Murphy of the University of where the issue of school productivity is no Utah faculty was recently presented at a longer academic, the Foundation points out. special seminar sponsored by the institution. A large and continueing surge in public .The university researchers suggest that school' enrollment, the continuting economic classroom productivity i.e classroom size-c- an be significantly increased Without loss of recession, and increasing competition for educational equality by providinglower-paid- , teacher aides to handle chores management and housekeeping that now take much of the classroom teachers time away from actual instruction and by intelligent use of and mini-compute- rs other electronic teaching devises. The professors warn against providing additional staff for teachers pn an individual basis, as this would be an undesirable "add-on expense. They point out, however, that a pool of teacher aides could serve a large group of classroom teachers effectively and at lower cost. Recent research indicates that a key factor in the educaitonal progress of students is the ratio of engaged time (time spent in an actual learning process) to total time in the classroom. GIIEEHERY PROFESSIONALS Triple-Diamon- In a column in January 1980, I made the observation that these awards were being passed around rather liberally, though I refrained from making jokes about showing up on time, keeping pencils sharp, and other qualities that go into making a good bureaucrat stand out among his peers. The cash awards arent particularly funny, though, and have run into a highly unlikely source of criticism: federal workers. In a recently released survey of about 1,000 members of SES, 50 percent of the respondents said they thought a disproportionate share of the bonuses go to the very top agency executives at the expense of more deserving subordinates. Forty-fiv- e percent reported one or more instances in the last year when, they believed, bonuses were given to management favorites without sufficient basis in actual performance. If the lure of bonuses promotes performance excellence among top government management, then its cost to the taxpayer an estimated $14 million annually would be money well spent. But when awards are given under a mutual arrangement, the dangers of political and personal abuse are enormous. dividuals productivity often has little or no relation to his compensation. Actually, the trend over the years has been to reduce teacher productivity by steadily reducing the number of pupils taught by a given teacher. It is recognized that productivity in schools is nor strictly comparable to productivity in industry, but many critics including some prominent educators believe that teacher productivity can be increased without J&J's... Home ot the Double-Diamon- carrot-and-stic- But we hope that as plans and programs are considered for the coming financial year that those who design them remem-- , ber our college graduate, struggling or progressing educational basics. 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