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Show Rural educators urge rejection of tax rollback initiatives citing drastic cuts The Utah Rural Schools Association Asso-ciation (URSA) has adopted three formal resolutions encouraging all its members and the citizens of Utah to vote against the tax rollback roll-back initiatives that will appear on next November's election ballot. According to Bill Cowan, small rural schools specialist, Utah State Office of Education, the action was taken on July 27, 1988, when the organization's Executive Committee Commit-tee met at the offices of the Emery Board of Education in Huntington. Currently serving as the URSA president is Mark Littleford, principal prin-cipal of South Summit High School, Kamas. Mark explained that rural educators expressed mounting concerns about general lack of knowledge related to the tax limitation limi-tation proposalsandrecommended that the URSA take a strong and specific position on each initiative. The URSA's stand against Initiative Ini-tiative C, the Family Choice in Education Act, cites shortages in education funding, the association's tendency to place value on local control, a tuition tax credit level too low to benefit most families, and the fact that parents can already send their children to private schools if they wisn. In its resolution against Initiative Initia-tive B, the People's Tax Reduction Act, the URSA stated in part that the initiative will result in substantial substan-tial reductions in money available for schools; Utah schools are al ready funded below a average; education j. n cost-effective C " lu nomic productive i9Tnt; Utah needs industry. nS The resolution again , mg limitation AnS8 pressessimilarbeliefs.SU erty taxes are relativelyiow tax revenue will depri;j schools; no future plan t lostfundingexistsjchildr foundation of ou econ good education is of SS tance to rural commu rural children. es |