Show STATE RANKS LOW IN EDUCATION IS 13 CLAIM it Is frequently hoard heard that utah tanks ranks at or near the top of the list of states in education but tt a look into the facts probes this to be a rather mistaken idea only in the matter neatter of attendance does the state really rank high and that Is because utah Is laone oneff of the few states that has hag compulsory high school attendance in 1920 1020 utah ranked fifth in the nation in 1921 she dropped to wenty twenty first in 1924 and 1928 she was twentieth and in 1930 fit fifteenth the state ranked sixth in literary third in attendance and second in high school enrollment in high school graduates who go to higher institutions she ranked twenty sixth in 1930 that utah drops low on items that cost money Is revealed by the following facts lacta in 1930 she was twenty seventh in length of term thirty first drat in total cost excluding salaries twenty second in salaries oal a ties and twentieth in total expenditures per child the state ranks second in holding power of at boys and girls between the ages ot of 14 andelt |