Governor Leavitt Commissions Olympics CD Utah's governor, Michael Leavitt, has commissioned Kurt Bestor to write a CD for school children that teaches the values and ideals espoused by the Olympics. This will be available by the end of the summer for all educators and children and performed throughout the year until February 2002. For more than a decade Kurt Bestor's film scores, television themes, compositions and carols have found enthusiastic listeners. His credits include more than 30 film scores and more than 40 themes for national TV programs and commercials. Not to take us back to electric power, but I will say there are some staples in a 21st Century economy.
Energy is one, highways, water.
Those are as essential to the prosperity of a 21st Century economy as electric power and water were in the agrarian time. Now, we still need to have all of them, but an investment in education that increases the quality, doubles the number of our graduates in computer science and engineering, that will assure that children have the capacity to read, very important long-term investment in the state. The information system currently used by the Division of Youth Corrections and the Juvenile Court is over 20 years old and has undergone numerous revisions. When, after a careful assessment, it was determined that the existing system could not be enhanced further, the Division joined with the Juvenile Court in a partnership to develop a new system. The overall goal of the joint effort is to build a complete system for all juvenile justice and child welfare information and permit the sharing of all appropriate information among state and local governmental organizations.