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Show Utah Employs High Percent of Teacher Graduates Utah more than held its own in retaining teacher - training graduates last year. This observation obser-vation was made by Utah Foundation, Foun-dation, the governmental research re-search agency, in their latest study of teacher supply in Utah. The Foundation report points out that although 1)3'! of the teacher graduates from Utah institutions in-stitutions in 15 were Utah residents, resi-dents, 71 'J of those who did accept ac-cept teaching positions last year signed contracts with Utah school districts. An important factor in this favorable balance in teacher teach-er decruitment is the drawing power of Brigham Young University. Univer-sity. According to the report, a significant sig-nificant number of teacher-training graduates do not enter the teaching profession immediately upon graduation. However, both the number and the percentage of teacher graduates accepting teaching posts in Utah have risen materially during recent years-Last years-Last year 1,175, of 53 of the-teacher the-teacher graduates trained in Utah colleges accepted position. in Utah. This compares with 29T or 37',v of the teacher graduates; who took teaching jobs in Utah in 1951-55. A total of 1,191 new teachers were employed in Utah at the start of the 1965-66 school year, the report continues. Of these, 1,075 were hired to fill vacancies, left by the resignation, death, transfer or retirement of existing: teachers, and 416 teachers were employed to fill new posts resulting re-sulting from the increase iit school enrollment, the trend toward to-ward reduced class size, etc. Foundation analysts note that of the 1,491 new teachers employed em-ployed in Utah last year, a total of 225 taught the previous year in some other state, while 1,226 did not teach anywhere in 1964-65. 1964-65. Nearly one-fourth of the teachers who taught the preceding preced-ing year in some other state came from California. |