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Show tion. In our Utah school with only 40 school distort n have these advantages We Now let us consider a state as Illinois, which has 13 875 SUcl1 districts. Mutliply the'pL5001 necessary for administering nel of our forty school districts by and you hae some idea as t 3 can be solved in one central group. 3. More competent personnel can be obtained. In a large district dist-rict where students can be brought in on buses and placed in economical econom-ical groups a teacher can be procured pro-cured to teach each subject and be better prepared to teach that one thing. Better administrators can be provided in a district which can offer more advancement than one which is small and financially The Way Utah Hoes It In education, as in any other great movement, there are several ways in which we endeavor to organize or-ganize in order to do the most successful job. Organization of a state educational system is a complex com-plex and difficult task. Utah was one of the forerunners in an educational edu-cational revolution when she a-dopted a-dopted consolidation in 1915. Consolidation combined many small school and school districts into one larger, administrative unit. In Millard county we have one school district and only three high schools functioning. In other states without consolidation we cost of administering suoh 1 "e tern. Students, under an?"' system than coosolidation ,, through one-room school hnn inadequate equipment, poorlv !l and poorly prepared instructn In summary, a state school L tern which is consolidated a? it, t is offers a better education tot t children at a lower cost to the t payer. It furnishes better buildi and equipment. It provides a 7? ter financing system and ben!" citizens are produced, which f all is the aim of education. inadequate. '4. Better facilities will be available. avail-able. Placing more students in a school will allow more and better equipment to be purchased. Shops can be better equipped. Art classes commercial classes, and music departments can avail themselves of the materials and equipment necessary for good educational programs. Listed above are but a few of the advantages under consolida- would have a school district with a school boad, a district clerk, and a superintendent for each of our thirteen communities. Each town would have its own high school and elementary school. From the foregoing one can easily see some of the advantages of consolidating a group of schools into one large district. Let us list other advantages. 1. Easier tax collection. By making mak-ing the area of the school district conform with an already functioning function-ing governmental until such as the county, the system can be made more simple than cutting the expenditures necessary in several sev-eral small districts. 2. More economical to taxparers. A good functioning unit must be large enough to support schools so that they do no have over-duplication. over-duplication. With the schools all under one administrative head, the school boards and superintend ent, problems of all the schools |