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Show School WMi Lists Money ing if teachers agreed to a certain cer-tain number of years to pay the scholarship off. The touchy issue of higher pay for such teachers was also raised by the USBA as well as a chance teachers could obtain summer jobs from outside industry. Lake County, continue such practices, she notes. YEAR-ROUND school and extended high school day must still be looked at, she says, although due to passage of the last bond election, that's "still down the road three-four years." The USBA is also asking for about $800,000 to cover utilities, utili-ties, as the cost continues to climb but she noted the Davis District's energy audit has already helped reduce costs and will additionally in the future. SHE SAID a change is needed, and requested, as well, to remove cost of school districts paying counties for tax collection operations. That totalled $193,880 for Davis District, alone, last year-enough year-enough to build several classrooms. TOM BUSSELBERG Jorth County Editor 'UNTIFUL Perhaps eginning to sound like a n record, but the Legisla-needs Legisla-needs to provide more y for basic school ser-such ser-such as student-teacher and building construe- TO FURTHER stimulate teachers, incentive pay to attend in-service seminars is also proposed but all of these would require legislative appropriations, she emphasizes. empha-sizes. "The public doesn't perceive per-ceive that problem-it has to get really bad" first, she adds, noting "I think in Davis County Coun-ty we're doing pretty good so far but there are problems. "NOT ONLY the kids pay the price but America will fall behind technologically." In the late 1950's, when the Sputnik Sput-nik "scare" arose, the federal government came through, pumping millions into math and science programs. That's not the mood, now, Mrs. Allen reflects. "The local and state levels have to solve that." Other revenue sources that need to be stimulated are the severance tax-"there's no question about that-there's a lot of places that could go," she says, adding that many rural ru-ral areas oppose such a move, however. "THE GENERAL feeling is that (tax) should be for capital outlay (construction). Because Be-cause we've had good planning in the past as far as building goes, we (will) have less of a shock" in the Davis District, she says. "It's not going to be easy" but Davis has "always been conservative" in building. "We've poured more into classrooms, clas-srooms, never had pools" or auditoriums in junior high schools" while some districts, such as Jordan in South Salt ERYL Allen, veteran of y six years as a Davis )1 Board member and the x months as board presi-expressed presi-expressed such needs in Aish list" prepared by the School Board's Assoc. :he Davis five-member I for consideration by the ning Legislature. pil-teacher ratios, higher ah than most other states, artially controlled by the supplied Weighted Pupil , where monies are sup-on sup-on a per student basis, iking to that issue she "I think validly that (in-ie) (in-ie) needs to be more than ost of living. 'OR THREE of the last years, the Government mplemented cuts and we r got all the (previously lated) WPU's." Not only tuents hurt by having to nd larger classes but lers suffer because salar-re salar-re kept down," she says. Vhen you've got a teacher can't afford a home for y years-that's a prob-Mrs. prob-Mrs. Allen continues, ig the dilemma now facing :cts and potential teachers idents cry out for compu-raining compu-raining but qualified lers get lured by higher ies from private industry 'elated story , elsewhere in 's paper). )L'R FUTURE depends on she says, referring to teachers are retained for training. She suggests a 3 1 a r s h i p program be ted that would pay school- |