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SSSSa""-' " l" fmn 'rW What The Current Controversy In Utah Education Means To YOU As A Parent The present situation in Utah results re-sults from the neglect of the state to provide adequately for its public schools. This has resulted in the inability in-ability of our local school districts to furnish the services, supplies and equipment equip-ment and to pay reasonable salaries to teachers necessary for a quality educational educa-tional program for your children. For the past fifteen years teachers have pleaded and begged the Legislature Legisla-ture for more nearly adequate public school financing. Many legislators worked untiringly for the support of the educational program, but for the most part the pleas of the teachers have fallen on deaf ears. For the past eighteen months the Cooperating Agencies for the Public Schools (Utah School Boards Association, Associa-tion, Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers, Utah Education Association, Society of School Superintendents and Utah State Department of Public In - struct ion) have been united in their request for legislation which would bring Utah up to the average of our neighboring states in expenditure per pupil. This would have required an increase in-crease in our educational investment of $100 per child in average daily attendance per year. This, it was t agreed, was a minimum program and ' a minimum goal. However, CAPS' proposal was not allowed to come out of the House of Representative's Sifting Sift-ing Committee. In other words, the CAPS' BILL WAS NEVER FULLY CONSIDERED. Those who opposed the CAPS' program throughout the recent session of the Legislature are now saying over and over that education received the greatest single appropriation ever given Utah's schools. The fact is that it will not take us even half the distance from where we are now in th .r-- nf the seven surrounding Mountain States. Regardless of the efforts of some to gloss over that unpleasant reality by attempting to make it appear that something has been done which ha not been done at all, Utah's unfavorable unfavor-able condition in education remains. Your children are being denied a quality education. Superintendents cannot solve the problem by changing the method of distribution by alloting a greater proportion of available money to teachers' salaries. TEACHERS ARE INTERESTED IN THE TOTAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, NOT JUST IN THEIR SALARIES ALONE. It is our best estimate that Utah's school expenditures, under the legislation legisla-tion passed by the 1963 regular session of the Legislature, will lag next year by more that $70 per pupil annually behind the average of the other surrounding sur-rounding Mountain States. By 1965, this lag once again will be approximately approxi-mately $100 per pupil. "The CAPS' program for education educa-tion is a realistic program which was cooperatively arrived at by thoughtful thought-ful people working with all available data. It is not a luxury program and by no means unrealistic. While some contend that the intelligent in-telligent way to solve the educational problem is to go on with school as usual until the differences can be reconciled, rec-onciled, it must be remembered that the teachers have been patient through fifteen years of such negotiations. They have tried in every way possible to resolve re-solve the problem without disruption of service. However, all efforts have been futile and conditions have compounded com-pounded with each passing year. Teachers have been forced into distracting dis-tracting side lines and supplemental employment when in reality the profession pro-fession of teaching is most demanding in terms of both full-time commitment and nervous stress. In this space age no teacher can hope to meet the demands de-mands of the rapidly expanding subject-matter content and equally exciting excit-ing strategies of teaching without devoting full time (including summers) to the profession. This really is at the expense of your children. The teachers of Utah have but one ingle purpose in their present action: it is the Improvement of their service to the boys and girls of this slate. While teachers' salaries are undeniably un-deniably a part of the problem, ADEQUATE ADE-QUATE STAFFING, REASONABLE TEACHING LOAD. PROPER PHYSICAL FACILITIES, REASONABLE REASON-ABLE TIME SCHEDULES, ESSENTIAL ESSEN-TIAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT, EQUIP-MENT, ACCEPTABLE PERSONNEL PERSON-NEL RELATIONSHIPS. AND HIGH CERTIFICATION STANDARDS, are equally important aspects of the . problem. No group in Utah wants more to see schools open on schedule in September Sep-tember than do the teachers. On the other hand, they have seen them open for fifteen consecutive years with increasingly in-creasingly less opportunity fot doing the kind of job that needs to be done for your children. The parents of Utah can ill afford to sit by and let teachers migrate to other states where teaching conditions re more attractive. The time for action i now and those willing to provide adequately for Utah's children should not let any groups divert them from their determination and right to provide pro-vide the educational opportunity which their children deserve. Teachers' rontraets terminate in June. After that time teachers have no contracts and therefore no school em-nlnymnt. em-nlnymnt. Tescher; hsvc been told they are public servants and must return re-turn to the classroom. They have been told they could be required to enter into a contract to perform services and be required to perform such services. Legal opinion has stated: No such court procedure or power exists in the United Siates because it would be unconstitutional. A court may not force a person to perform services. This would constitute "involuntary "in-voluntary senitudc." Our Constitution provides for special sessions of the Legislature when needed. The Governor has indicated that one is needed now. Utah's educators educa-tors believe that the problem of school finance needs to be on the agenda of a special session. For the purpose of bringing this about and in the interest of quality education, Utah's teachers voted 7,785 to 189 to interrupt contract negotiations for the school year 1963-64. Make no mistake! There will be no school in the fall until the current educational edu-cational controversy is satisfactorily resolved. The Utah Education Association is the professional organization of the teachers of Utah. The teachers elect the members of the Board of Trustees, who comprise the policy-making body of the organization. The UEA and its officers and employees represent the teacher members. The Utah Education Association has stated many times a willingness to discuss any reasonable settlement of the current controversy. Governor Clyde apparently does not understand the significance of this crisis, and apparently does not understand that he is perpetuating it. It now appears that the only way that this controversy ran be settled is for the parents of Utah to demand de-mand that the Governor alio this matter to be considered fully in a special session. InswtrnninrwmitmtuiiuiNiirii, I Km c !, ff, iin-mt itraiTUY. its iwcatio AssnrnTton I |