| Show Funds For Schools SPECIAL TO THE CLIPPER Incumbent Representative J. P. Redd spoke at the Davis County Republican Rally at the Music Hall Friday Night September REDD discussed the nationally famous Serrano-Priest lawsuit which has practically reorganized state funding of the public lawsuit filed In California in 1968 by John Anthony Serrano against Ivy Baker the California contended that the existing school funding the quality of a public education was dependent upon family wealth and geographical THE California supreme court accepted this proposition when it was shown that affluent Beverly Hills School District spent per pupil per year while across town in Baldwin Park District the per pupil expenditure was only yet the property tax rate in Baldwin park was more than twice as high as that in Beverly The principal features of the California Supreme Court's decision THAT education in public schools is a fundamental interest of the The quality of a child's public education ought not to be solely a function of the wealth of a child's parents and A PUBLIC school funding system which is heavily dependent upon local properly tax invidiously discriminates against the the non-industrial areas and is a violation of the U.S. Constitution's the equal protection of the laws' Currently there are over 30 other states involved in such law which have the same or similar THE UTAH Constitution in Article X legislature shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of a uniform system of public open to all children of the Through a legislative council committee specifically assigned to the Senator Omar Bunnell of Price and Representative have worked on improving Utah's funding As a legislation is now being prepared for the 1973 session which will improve the IN 27 million dollar Davis County School local property taxes raise about 5 Without slate Davis County would have to increase property taxes almost percent to provide the same education without state Utah has one of the better equalization Only Hawaii of the 50 states does are not in too much danger of litigation over the schools maintenance and operation continued Representative the school construction funding system needs to be The public school capital expenditures House Bill sponsored by Representative Redd in the 1972 budget was a major step toward construction we can leave the most well off districts where they are now and as the state's financial capacity up the poorer districts which includes Davis he from statehood until the public school system offered no opportunity to the emotionally and certain of the physically handicapped Education of the House Bill passed in 1969 was a start in JOHN REDD giving training and under the public tern to these thereby mandate schools V of the handle paid all the taxes eve else does and then addi fd personal money for- limited private i help was t gh school fund L an ongoing at 5 cannot maintain effective government- unduly hamper the f process by electing people every two Redd i |
