Show 1 i if Education Costly y f Davis Takes 58 53 SPECIAL TO THE mE CLIPPER CUPPER What price education in Davis Dav Day is County Of every dollar spent for public purposes locally locally locally local local- ly what part of it is for school operations How do l I local o 0 c a l I school costs compare with those elsewhere A REPORT recently released by the government based upon a nationwide survey shows that education is by far the largest financial burden local I 1 ly No less than per cent of all governmental expenditures in the county are for school buildings for teachers salaries for maintenance for equipment equipment equip equip- ment and for other expenses connected with school opera opera- I IN SOME parts of the country country coun coun- try it runs higher than that and in other parts part lower On the average throughout the United States local governments governments govern govern- ments devote per cent of their budgets to education In Inthe Inthe Inthe the state of Utah per cent centis is so I The data was obtained by bythe bythe bythe the Census Census' Bureau in its first study of the kind since ince 1957 It examines the extent of spending spending spend spend- ing for educational purposes in all communities in the country once every five years I IN DAVIS County it shows overall expenditures by local governments were equivalent to for every man wom woman woin woin- an and child in the population Of this amount went for education By way of comparison the general cost of education elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere else else- where in the United States was per capita AMONG counties of similar size the average was per capita A substantial upgrading of the educational level has been noted in almost every part of the nation Currently four out of every nine adults have gone through high school and one out of every 11 has had four years or more of college training This is well beyond the attainment attain ment reported a decade ago WHILE TIlE THE increase in total to to- total tal population in the past ten years has been about 18 percent per percent percent cent the increase in the number num ber of school children has been close to 50 per cent The increased enrollments combined with the higher cost of operations have created serious serious se rious financial problems for formost formost formost most local governments |