Show j i PHOTOGRAPH FROM Up by O. Gregory U. of U. professor Tho jointly published by A 11 red U. of U. Press and Anion Carter gives vivid pictures and text of Foundation finds fault with the State's school Building construction program Utah's programs of state aid for school construction were criticized in a documented study prepared by Utah the private governmental research According to the Foundation analysis existing state school building aid program are unduly do not always meet their original often are distributed without regard to relative tend to be self and contain provisions that encourage districts to adopt policies which circumvent the intent of the Despite the the Foundation study observes that the four state-aid school building programs have permitted the distribution of large sums of state aid funds to assist local school districts with their building Although most of this money has gone to districts with greatest building the excessive complexity of the programs has permitted some serious faults and inequities to The study indicates that Utah has made a very substantial effort to meet the school building Since the end of World War Utah has expended million on school capital with more than two-thirds of this expenditure total coming within the past eight Prior to the early school building construction was regarded in Utah as strictly a local with state school aids confined to operation Since the state has provided increasing amounts of state aid for school the state of Utah has appropriated or allocated million for local school It Is expected that funds made available during the current biennium for this purpose will total nearly In 1960 a survey was made in Utah to determine school building needs for the period through Based on this the Legislative Council placed the EMERGENCY needs for the five-year period at million while the State School Office determined that the TOTAL needs were mil- According to the Foundation Utah has more than met these estimates of school building Expenditures for school and furniture during the first four years through of the five-year period totaled an estimated This amount was 18 greater than the State School Office estimate of for the entire period and nearly twice the Legislative Council estimate of |