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Show Utah Public School Survey Commission To Make lsli To Each District; Question Box Provided For Help Hints The "Utah Public School Survey Sur-vey Commission has scheduled visits into each school district of the state during the next three weeks. The purpose of the visits will be to give Commission Commis-sion members and members of the fact-finding committees a first-hand picture of school practices, prac-tices, procedures and conditions. The visits will be made by visiting' vis-iting' teams composed of Commission Com-mission members, professional educators and lay members of the fact-finding committees. At least one elementary and one secondary school will be visited, and if time permits, other schools in each district will also be visited. The committees will use check lists which provide an appor-tunity appor-tunity for systematic observation observa-tion of school administration the instruction program, school buildings and facilities These visits are one of many methods which will be used by the School Survey Commission to gather information about the public schools of the. state. Other Oth-er procedures include the gathering gath-ering of information and data through questionnaires and opinion opin-ion polls from citizens, school personnel, and high school pupils. pu-pils. Statistical information will be compiled. The School Survey Commis-sion Commis-sion was established by the First Special Session of the Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth Legislature, June 16, 1951. The Commission is composed or sixty members. Of these sixty members, one was selected from each of the forty school districts in the state. The other twenty were chosen at large from the entire state. The Commission is charged with the responsibility of conducting con-ducting a comprehensive survey of the elementary and secondary school program in the state. The law empowers the Commission Com-mission "to examine any and all books, records, buildings, grounds, pupils, teachers, employees em-ployees and agents within the public school system." It requires re-quires a study of the objectives of the educational program. The study, as now organized, is divided into six study areas: Instruction, Organization and Administration. Staff Personnel, Person-nel, Pupil Personnel, Plant, Supplies Sup-plies and Transportation and Finance. The Commission is now in the process of gathering data as a basis for its judgments. These data will include visits in the schools of ' the state by Commission Com-mission and committee members an appraisal of the instruction program by committees of lay citizens and educators, a testing program, analysis of existing laws, statistical information and a study of all aspects of existing school practices and policies. The chairman of the Commission Com-mission is Dr. Adam S. Bennion. |