Show cot cost of operating school reduced in iron county the t taxpayers and school patrons throughout brong h out the state have recently had their attention called to the recommendations eom menda turns for reducing the cost cast of operating our schools contained i in the letter of january from ir S state ate sup bupt t C N jensen to the boards of f education of the various school districts 11 in order that people of thistle this dis brict may know definitely how the iron county count school board stands with regard to these a b brief r if review of them will be given followed by a statement of if wh what at has already followed I 1 r a dy been osy done along these thes lines line As those who have read mad sept jensen i letter will recall he offers the he folio following w ing suggests suggestions as avenues of relief to the it taxpayer I 1 ast 1st it cutting down the number of teachers employed by raising the present average avenge of 30 pupils per teacher to an average of 36 pupils 2nd and A readjustment of salaries nes in order to retain the most meet efficient t teachers be in the service ard 3rd rd combining small sm all classes in th the upper years of high school work and alternating coerces in order to get along with fewer teachers teacher ath cutting dow a on the build ing programs still exercising the strictest to ec onomy bonom in the use ue of supplies ind eq ea all of these thee suggestions are along tile the identical lines of reduction in tures itom that ha hae e already been toll tol owed lomed this ear and in wine some measures we have gone farther ill than bupt built jensen suggests I 1 iri III the first place while our en lolli nent is practically the same mine as it was as last year we have cut down our teaching reselling force by nine teachers tea chefs ard wo super supervisor by giving g teachers larger groups and by putting the first three grades on a half day schedule this has resulted i in an g e of from 38 to 44 bupt pupils per deac teacher be r in the graded schools of the district the actual average in the different schools is sai follows cedar city 44 1 6 pupils per er aca teacher ihor paragonah Para gonah nih 41 M parico parowan Pa rowan rIvo 41 29 Ka narra 38 in Ka narra each teacher has bas four grades while there are am two one teacher schools bl b in the district where the teachers has front from 33 to 35 pupils and all the grades to teach in our junior and senior high school work classes have been combined and courses a alternated st so that we are am getting along with three fewer teachers in this work than we had last year near the follow following g items from a report Z sent to t the th a state at office early in the y bear ear will show to s what hit extent we have attempted to cut our salary budget and expense of supplies and general maintenance school tax x iab levy for or I 1 1920 9 9 mills 1921 9 2 mills reduction this year 7 mills total budget for 1920 21 75 including 25 15 for fir in payments sc sinking fund and bond redemption ons f total budget fr for 1921 22 1117 so 50 00 including g 00 in inter a eat t payments enking fund bond rede demotion demp in pt tion ion this lemei leaves for far e and operating expenses 91 65 60 1921 22 00 a reduction of aa for this yer as compared with ith last vest vear th the actual amount will ill be a hit ettli 1 than ill this as as ai we have had to open a seh 1 in two to places we a had not counted on at tile the it time the bud get we was prepared matter of teachers teacher budget all aloi mile arthe atho saving has bas been as fol 1044 1 olat amount paid teachers teach erx 1920 21 OG 00 |