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Show Leichty candidate for State School Board illlilpHllS?' III WKM i lilt! !f piiK ' f j ' ? : ' . Jay Liechty has announced his candidacy for the District 8 seat on the State Board of Education. District 8 covers central Utah County including Pleasant Grove, Orem, Provo and Springville. Leichty is a member of the Governor's Committee for Cost Effective Government, and is chairman of the subcommittee which has just completed examining the public education system in Utah. This assignment has taken him to many of the school districts in Utah and given him broad insight into the public school system. He believes Utah must adopt more efficient ways to educate young people. "Utah is locked in an embarrassing em-barrassing standoff which pits the taxpayers agianst the educational establishment," Liechty says. "We cannot expect anything but more frustration unless we are willing to modify the educational system." There are successful examples operating right now in Utah where students are learning more with less money being spent. Liechty is a Certified Public Accountant with extensive experience ex-perience in the business world. He is a classroom teacher at the LDS Business College who feels that leadership in the classroom is the prime factor in guiding students to Jay Leichty a good education. Liechty describes himself political conservative wiP respect for a strong worked Cor excellence in education : holds a BA degree in ecoiC from BYU and a MA dep. economics from Stanford1-; sity. He attended law seta1 UCLA. ,. Members of the Liechty have lived in the Provo-Oreu-for more than 100 years. Jay a-; wife, Suzanne Calder, are -parents of 10 children. Jay;-and Jay;-and reared in Springville |
