Voters in the Alpine District in the north part of Utah County gave one-sided approval to a $12 million building bond issue in Tuesday’s special election. The ratio in favor was about 5 to 1. Obviously the growing district needs the school expansion program projected in the years ahead as the bond money becomes available.… Continue reading A Pitifully Light vote
Category: Education
UEA Strike Deplored – Upgrade Education–But by ‘Due Process’
Across Utah today there is confusion and frustration, As the two-day Utah Education Association-called school teacher strike took effect, parents, children and general public were inconvenienced-and considerably bewildered. Go to school? Stay home? One-day recess? No days? The situation began to clarify somewhat late Sunday as most of Utah’s 40 school districts backed the resolution of the… Continue reading UEA Strike Deplored – Upgrade Education–But by ‘Due Process’
Prayer before sports events worthwhile
A federal judge has upheld an Atlanta, Ga. High School senior’s claim that pre-game prayers at school football games are unconstitutional. “The court grants plaintiffs request for a judgment declaring pre-game invocations at Douglas County High School football games unconstitutional,” said the decision by U.S. District Judge Ernest Tidwell. The case arose last fall when… Continue reading Prayer before sports events worthwhile
Moment of silence could mean prayer
Two recent reactions have nudged the lingering national issue of school prayer into the limelight again. First, President Reagan put in another pitch for voluntary prayer in the public schools in his recent State of the Union address. And the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will consider reinstating a New Jersey law, struck down by lower… Continue reading Moment of silence could mean prayer
Most Want Prayer in Schools
Combining imagination with reality for a moment, suppose that Washington, D.C., were destroyed by a natural catastrophe or act of war and that archaeologists of a latter millennium found such inscriptions as the following amid ruins of government buildings and memorials: “In God We Trust,” on a wall in the Senate chamber of the Capitol.… Continue reading Most Want Prayer in Schools
Growth, Change: They’re Perpetual Watchwords
So we’ve entered a new decade! High hopes for happiness and prosperity are mingled with concerns over inflation, energy shortages, and other economic problems as we turn from the 70’s and advance into a new 10-year span. There are other concerns too, as war clouds gather in parts of the world. The Soviet Union is… Continue reading Growth, Change: They’re Perpetual Watchwords
Debate on College Salaries – Public’s Right to Know
Does the public have a right to know how much public employees are being paid? Traditionally the answer has been yes – the taxpayers whose money pays the salaries ought to have the right to know, if they ask. But the question, as it applies to college and university employees in Utah, is being debated now.… Continue reading Debate on College Salaries – Public’s Right to Know
Protests on NEA Policy
Two groups of school teachers in Utah Valley recently have protested, in letters to the editor, the National Education Associations endorsement of a presidential candidate. ”We feel this to be an unprofessional act by a professional organization,” said one group. “As educators we retain the right to endorse whomever we will and choose not to… Continue reading Protests on NEA Policy
Alpine School Bond Vote
Alpine School District’s proposed $12 million bond election, slated Oct. 4., raises some questions for the citizenry and school board to ponder. Apparently the money is needed, or will be needed as bonding capacity increases, judging by the superintendent’s report of population growth. Priorities have been established for new elementary schools in Orem and American… Continue reading Alpine School Bond Vote
In Oaks Testimony – College Curbs Opposed
Brigham Young University’s president, Dr. Dallin H. Oaks, got in some good licks against growing federal encroachment in the field of higher education when he testified Tuesday before a congressional committee in Washington. Charging that independence of private schools is threatened and that diversity disappears as control emerges, President Oaks appeared before the Post Secondary… Continue reading In Oaks Testimony – College Curbs Opposed