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Show County School Board approves objectives CEDAR CITY - The Iron County School Board at its last meeting approved ap-proved a list of district objectives for the 1982-83 school year. The objectives, not in any type of order, are as follows: 1. If conditons are favorable conduct a bond election for a new vocational complex on the campus of Cedar High School. This would include appointing a committee to do planning and educating the public "on the need for the project in preparation for the bond election." 2. Identify potential dropouts and monitor their educational progress. This would include making recommendations for program modifications to ensure student success, determining if graduation requirements need to be modified via an individualized education program and interviewing dropouts to determine causes and to gather data for program modifications. The ultimate goal from such an objective is to maintain a dropout rate of 3 percent or less for 10th, 11th and 12th grade students. 3. Increase salaries of personnel up to the state average as soon as feasible. The implementation im-plementation of this objective is tied to increased in-creased teacher loads. 4. Increase enrollments in vocational educational programs such as electronics and computer science. Attract more gifted students into vocational and technical classes. 5. Implement a new procurement p policy and centralize the purchasing operations into one office. 6. Provide up-to-date monthly financial reports to directors, the superintendent, the board of education and principals. prin-cipals. Such reports will enable better fiscal management decisions. 7. Provide inservice programs for all Iron County School District personnel. 8. Improve the integrity of the evaluation system. "The major problem that remains is one of evaluation inflation. Personnel who have serious weaknesses are evaluated too highly." 9. Ensure that teachers are familiar with and are using state curriculum guides. 10. See that all principals prin-cipals and directors ' develop a set of objectives ob-jectives for their assignments for the 1982- 83 school year. They should be prepared to submit and discuss these objectives with the School Board in the September meeting. 11. Establish a kindergarten kin-dergarten to 12th grade study committee for language arts. 12. Implement a program for valuing all district employees. 13. Establish a study committee to investigate use of the computer for such activities and classes as student accounting ac-counting and student curricular use. 14. Appoint an inservice education committee to provide a system of involvement in-volvement for teachers. 15. Implement an individualized in-dividualized education program for students in all secondary schools. 16. Study the possibility of implementing the individualized education program in all elementary elemen-tary schools. 17. Implement the discipline code. 18. Appoint a committee com-mittee to study a variety of ways to increase productivity in the school district. This study should include teacher and student productivity. |