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Show School Turnover Outlined By Foundation Iron County School District experienced a turnover of 14 persons, or 9.5'; in the num- j ber of professional school per- sonnel employed last year. This was pointed out in an analysis -by Utah Foundation of data gathered by the .State ! Board of Education. ! The study shows that alto-1 gether Iron Co. School District employed 148 teachers and other educators in 1906-67. This represented an Increase of 1 from the number working for the district during the preceding school year. A total of 15 school employees were new to the district last year. Foundation analysts note that a total of 1,834 new pro- iessional personnel were employed em-ployed by all Utah schools last year. Of these, 580 were hired to fill new posts with the remaining 1,254 signed to fill vacancies resulting from the death, resignation, transfer, trans-fer, or retirement of existing teachers. Most of the openings for new teachers in Utah, according accord-ing to the study, are filled by recent graduates of Utah's six teacher training institutions. Of the 1,834 new teachers employed em-ployed last year, 1,319, or 72 were 1966 graduates of Utah's colleges, 295 had taught the previous year in some other state, with the remaining 220 consisting of former teachers returning to teaching or teacher teach-er graduates from former years entering the teaching ranks for the first time. California supplies nearly one-fourth the teachers who taught the previous year in some other state. The report mentions that a majority of the out-of-state teachers who returned to Utah last year had some previous attachment to the state, such as having attended at-tended college at one of the Utah schools. Utah more than held its own in retaining its teacher-graduates teacher-graduates last year. Although only 65 of the 1966 teacher-graduates were residents of Utah, 75 of those that did teach last year accepted ac-cepted teaching posts in the state. The report suggests that the drawing power of Brigham Young , University is the major factor in this favorable favor-able balance in teacher recruitment. |