Show NEA Report Lists I Utah Education Tops II Utah ranks at or near the top in nearly every measurement measurement measurement measure measure- ment of the effectiveness of Its educational program as compiled compiled compiled com com- piled in a released just-released report of the National Education As Association Association Association As- As according to Sen Wallace F. F Bennett R Our states state's eminence In the field of Education did not come without tremendous foresight and Imagination The first group of pioneers to enter Salt Lake Valley did so during July of 1847 Just one month later although faced with a tough land that had yet to be tamed the first school was started in inthe inthe inthe the Valley the Utah lawmaker explained THE NEA research report lists Utah In the top four states in more than a dozen different Indices of interest in and ef effectiveness effectiveness ef- ef f- f veness of our Utah public educational system Sen Bennett Bennett Bennett Ben Ben- nett said The Utahn said figures which are representative of Utah's high rankings Include FOURTH IN the percentage of Its population 5 17 years of age age attending school during Juring fall se semester of the current school year year 95 95 per cent First in the median school years completed by persons 25 years of age and older In I 1960 2 1960 years I Ij j 1 TIED FOR fourth In the low j jest est percentage of its population tion years and older who were j illiterate in 1960 1960 09 per percent cent Fourth in the lowest percentage percentage percent percent- I age of Selective Service i 1 draftees failing pre induction and Induction mental tests in 1966 1966 39 per cent a FIRST IN the local and state revenue for public schools as a percentage of personal Income In 1966 1966 65 per cent Third in per capita total exp ex ex- p of state and local I governments for all education during 66 1965 66 1965 FIRST IN STATE and local total expenditures for all ed education education education ed- ed as a per cent of direct general expenditures for all functions during 66 1965 66 1965 per cent First in state expenditures for state institutions of higher education per-capita per of tion in 19 1966 80 8 6 J j I J I |