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Show €s ahotrrrt | Novena 19957 WASATCH COUNTY COURIER_ in grades, 3, 5 and 11, than were those in districts spending more than the Utah average. Scott Bean, who then was Deputy State Superintendent and who served on the same sub committee, went ballistic when | presented my findings. He said he had always been afraid that someone would misuse the test score data. He sure wasn’t interested in finding out how the poorer - districts were doing better with less. Nor was he during his years as state superintendent. Every year Utah ought to publish a series A PERL EE SA TMs of pie charts that show exactly what it is the district: headquarters do and how money is spent in each district headquar- LE, POP ters. Of course, you would have to revise SOL the present accounting system which seems to be designed to hide rather than highlight whether funds are being spent on teaching or on other activities. The charts should be supplemented with ‘results of an annual teacher survey rating the district in various aspects of classroom support. (Doesn’t it warm your heart just thinking about teachers rating ‘ie: dis- as superintendent of the Catholic school system in Utah. At the time there were nine schools in the system and this one smart, energetic sister served them all as the superintendent and district office. It seems in the Catholic program teaching > and learning get the priority not administration. And exactly what does the State Office of Education do with the more than $100 million dollars it spends every year? You might ask your children’s teacher some time exactly what the State Office of Education does to help out with her teaching. What part of the $100 million a year is getting to her classroom? I am all for accountability based on testing and I suspect most parents want to know that their children are meeting high stan- dards of performance. But it is also time to hold administrators accountable: for call a roundabout, a traffic circle, neither want tg stop growth, all they have to do is build a coal fired power plant that spews out enough pollution to hide the affect the view. view. At High , his Olympic School, briefing Mitt Romney told and supplies Don’t hold your breath waiting for it to happen. It is easier, it seems, to poormouth and whine than it is to get serious - about kids’ learning 4% " f | " have no roadways shaded from the sun in winter, this a problem common to both an overpass and an underpass. story: He was talking to one of the NBC ‘TV producers for the Olympics and Americans aten’t too familiar with drivmentioned that Utah hoped the Games ing on traffic circles, and that’s a probwould boost tourism. The TV producer | lem, but it can be solved by building the said, “Don’t worry about it. we show our shots of your the whole world is going come to Utah.” And what As soon as . circle on large scale so that drivers have mountains, enough time to figure out which lane to want to they want to be in and time enough to is the most execute lane changes. Fortunately, there is plenty of room at the intersection to scenic mountain in Utah? The backdrop for the Nordic events—Mt. Timpanogos. If the TV expert is right, the whole As | said, Outsiders already textbooks will stick up in the air and -A roundabout is the correct solution because it’s cheaper to build and will at Wasatch the top priority of our education administeachers, of which | their work. If teaching and learning were trators, | Heber— the setting, the view. If they world is going to be heading for vacation. would be taken care of first and non classroom activities would get trimmed. failed. one and all their schemes The Outsiders keep coming. The reason’ The intersection can be fixed without is simple. The Commissioners don’t© adversely damaging the view by building either an underpass or what the British understand what attracts people to build a big traffic circle. UPOT- sees” to Be widening “W940 to Heber between Heber and the four lane highaes this. That’s why they came. Now I hope the Natives also understand that the most valuable asset Wasatch Co. has is the setting of Heber Valley—scenery, the view, and that brings us to building overpasses. The next time you Hive to py City, way, so now is the time to build:a traffic circle. Do it now, and it will save money. Do it now, and it only takes a little more land and a little more pavement. Come back in a few years to do it, and the new | highway they are building now will have to be torn up and rebuilt in the new configuration. That’s bad planning. That's a waste of money. Fix it now. % wer S é trict’s’s performance!) gimmicks, Some years ago | met the sister who served will lower the property values of everybody in Wasatch Co. because it will damage the priceless view. | cepaer ey age were proportionally three times more likely to score above the national average natives, have been trying to limit growth in Heber Valley with all kinds of The bare chon ede to be fixed, but not by an overpass. Building an overpass OES lap a It showed that students in those districts spending below the Utah per pupil aver- next, but for. years the County Commissioners, a ‘bunch of good ‘ol boy SI ance. at River Road will ruin the view. I hope the County Commissioners don’t get any ideas from what I’m going to say aa iy Outsiders move here for the scenery. Natives don’t fully appreciate what a comes into view out the right hand window of your car. Look at how an overpass erence for what's normal. acta see it out my window?” . the eh at Timp. The home owner said “I’ve been looking at that damn mountain every day for 70 years. Why would I want to — but Sit Saag were available in Utah, | did an analysis of district expenditures and student perform- suggested orienting the house to look at to Park City, return is spectacular, especially as Timp : Test results Heber. native, ane aa year Stanford Achievement another 5 _ ‘for little trip going xis, How you spend the money you have is surely as important as how much money you get. When I served on a sub com- | mittee of the Utah Education Strategic Planning Committee in 1991, the first house pay attention to the scenery. It’s a nice ~ beautiful place they live in because it’s what they grew up with. 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