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Title	A study of the Utah public school costs of the W.P.A recreation project for the school year of 1939-1940
Publication Type	thesis
School or College	College of Science
Author	Thorpe, Verne B.
Date	1942-08
Description	The Recreation Project of the Works Progress Administration has been sponsored by the State Board of Education since 1935. The project was written on a state-wide basis, to operate in each and every county. It was required that in each county or unit, a co-sponsor, having legal authority to conduct recreational activities must assume responsibility for its operation. This authority has been granted to the cities, counties, and school districts by the State Enabling Act. (See Appendix A, pp. 113.) On the basis of this granted authority, local school districts over the state have acted as co-sponsors of the Recreation Project. In this sponsorship they have been required to furnish a certain percentage of the operating costs as required by the Federal Government. These funds did not of necessity come from school finances, since the co-sponsors were given credit for all contributions and expenditures of all other local agencies or individuals that might have taken part in the financing of the Recreation Project. In other words; if the participants or others, paid for the use of school buildings and purchased their own material and equipment, the schools received credit for these expenditures the same as though they had funds. There has been a general feeling by both laymen and school people that this sponsorship has drawn heavily on school finances and that as a result, schools have not been able to carry on regular activities as efficiently as they would have, had they not used school funds for the sponsorship of the Recreation Project. Many have advocated that although the recreational activities have potential educational value, the school finances as now set up should not be used for recreational purposes. If they are to sponsor such activities, the costs should be from special taxation for that purpose. Since many agencies have been involved in the expenditures, it is important to know to what extent school finances have been decreased as a result of the sponsorship of the Recreation Project. It is evident that the schools have suffered only to the extent of the actual expenditures for this specific purpose and not for expenditures made in their behalf by other agencies and individuals.
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Publisher	University of Utah
Subject	Utah, United States; work projects administration; recreation; finance; education
Language	eng
Rights Management	© Verne B. Thorpe
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DOI	https://doi.org/doi:10.26053/0H-39ZM-KS00
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ID	1281446
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6449j05

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Title	Page 124
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OCR Text	Show 111 BIBLIOGRAPHY "Administrative J?roject 165-01-6010," Works Projects Adminis. tration, Finance Division, Washington, D.C. April 4, 1937 .• Bowers, Ethel, Recreation for Girls and Women~ Barnes and Company, 1934~ 425 pp:Camp, Walter, Spo.rts and Games. 1903,· 419 pp. . New York: New York 1 : : A.S. P. F. Collier & Son, Cubberly, ~Ellwood, Paterson, The Principal and His School. · Boxton, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company~ 1923. 571 pp. Educational Policies Commission, Learning the Ways -of Democracy. ·- Washington D.C.: · National Educatlon Association of The United States, 1940, 486 pp. "Emergency Relief Appropri_a tion Act · of 1936," 74, Congress of United States, HR 12624. Public - No 739 - Geist~r, Edna, Ice-Breakers and the Ice-Breaker Herself. New York: George H. Doran Company-;-!923, 169 pp. Hamilton, Edwin T., Popular Crafts for Boys. Meat & Company~ 1937, 345 pp. New York: Lampland, Ruth, Hobbies for Everybody. New York: Brothers Publishers, 1934, 408 pp. Dodd, . Harper & Laporte, William Ralph? Recreational ·L eadership of Boys, York: The Methodist Book Concern, 1927, 137 pp. New Nash, Jay Bryan. The br 9anization and Ad.ministration of Playgrounds and Recreation. New York: A.S.Barnes andCompany, 1921. 547 pp. Neumeyer, Martin H., Esther S., Leisure and Recreation. York: A.S.Barnes and Compa..rmy, 1936. 405 pp. New "Official Project, 65-1-1007, '' Works Projects Administration, Finance Division, Washington D.C. June 13, 1936. "Official Project, 465-01-3-2" Works Projects Administration,, Finance Division, Washington, D.C. October 4, 1937 • .
Reference URL	https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6449j05/1281570