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Show 117 participate by trying some may participate, are and some to influence others to more individuals may participate nevertheless associated with a or group their on Education (USBE), own but groups. Some of the Utah groups which have been involved and the various local actively are the UEA teacher associations, the Utah State Board of the Utah Taxpayers Association, the Utah Foundation, the LDS Church, the Salt Lake Ministerial AssOCiation, the Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers, the Chamber of Commerce, the Utah School Boards Association (USBA), the Utah AFL-CIO, local boards of education, the various colleges of education in the media. vary The degree and kind of activity greatly from group involved in justifying to group. likewise involved to as an The UEA, of course, is This has been the a great extent.4 organization spends UEA and its so doing has often been affiliates.5 case with many of the local It a The Utah Taxpayers great deal of its time a checking school budgets and expenditures tion, and in continuously Local boards of education and the USBA teacher associations also. Association in which these groups engage its tactics, improving its image, and seeking higher appropriations. are state and the and studying the very vocal tax situa opponent of the speaks for the business comnunity 4The collective negotiations process requires time and money. article in which some of the participants complain about this, see Lavor Chaffin, "Utah1s Top School Problems," Deseret News, 21 August 1975, p. 4-A. For an 5According to the Executive Secretary of the association, one It of its purposes is to keep taxes fair (not necessarily low), believes that in order to do this it must keep a close watch on all public expenditures. Jack Olson, Interview, Salt Lake City, 27 July 1976. |
