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Show 1 A2 Wednesday, October 25, 2006 .Vernal Express. TT r - . . a li t "v Todd students celebrate beating the Todd School beats Once called a struggling school, now the students at Todd Elementary are passing with flying colors. In 2000 Todd School was placed on the list of failing schools by the No Child Left Behind Act, a list rumored to be impossible to get off. But in 2002 Todd was one of the first to be taken off this list and has made adequate yearly progress for 4 years in a row earning national recognition for their success. The 2005-2006 school year marks the 4th year of success at Todd Elementary. The teachers teach-ers and staff at Todd are often asked, "How did you do it." The answer is not a simple one. Many things contribute to the success. When the school was placed on School Improvement the staff had a funeral for the failing school, burying it along with the stereotypes and stigma stig-ma associated with being listed as' tailing. They went forward from there. They looked at the sumn: Vimf in m ii mmi ! """" Ijr' q( 55 DlOVVSr 0 1 biwwiiiiiwiiiiiiiiiii . ttL, $11T(C95 illllBKIIwi lVISO Chain Saw Makes cleanup work much easier. Optional f "" i f vacuum and gutter kit attachments available. f r ' fy HS 45 Hedge Trimmer tCy Features dual- Includes many of the same excellent design I mmmmy a QaJJ reciprocating, double- features as our professional models. "0 O I sided blades with ' r VrVlW 1 f 4 i 4'H integrated cutter guard. 18" blade f3 odds. data, kept what was working and buried what was not. There are many things that have helped bring about the success of the students. Todd offers three all day kindergarten kindergar-ten classes. Eighty percent of the students who come for kindergarten kin-dergarten are not ready. When they enter 1st grade the number num-ber has reversed and 80 percent are ready for 1st grade. Todd has Art and Music classes offered in part through a grant from Art Works For Kids. P.E and Dance classes are also offered. The Waterford computer lab works to reinforce rein-force the core subjects taught in the classroom. Todd received the honor of Waterford Reading best site in 2004. Teachers at Todd actively sought out a grant to bring the CellVExll literacy program to their school. As part of this program pro-gram they have monthly 'Cell-bratioti' 'Cell-bratioti' nights where parents are invited into the school to Hi the odds see the good things their students stu-dents are doing and to participate partici-pate in literacy activities with their child. Smaller class sizes and more individualized tutoring tutor-ing have also been vital to the success of the school. In 2003 Todd became the first elementary elemen-tary school in the state to be accredited. The state looks at several different aspects of the data when determining if a school has made Adequate Yearly Progress. The school is broken bro-ken down into subgroups classified clas-sified by ethnicity as well as economically disadvantaged and students with disabilities. The students in all subgroups at Todd scored above the state level in Math and all but one subgroup, students with disabilities, dis-abilities, scored above the state in Language Arts. The data also shows that the Native American subgroup at Todd scored higher than at any other Uintah Basin School. whan Vernal Basin Saw & Cycle, 460 West Main 435-781-1226 Increase in sales and use tax revenue Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) is a national effort by state and local governments and the private sector to simplify and standardize the collection and administration of sales and use taxes. The goal is to standardize the sales and use taxes to keep up with technological changes and the explosion of Internet commerce. This is an important impor-tant step because sales and use taxes generate almost one-third of state budgets nationwide. For the taxpayer this means funding for public safety, corrections, cor-rections, human services, and supplemental funding for higher high-er education. The SST has uniform applications appli-cations so there will be consistency consis-tency for businesses selling to in-state and out-of-state buyers. buy-ers. The collection of sales tax across state lines is to be simplified. sim-plified. It will level the playing field for Main Street businesses and on-line services. All figures are from the Net Distribution after Administrative Costs. It will come as no surprise to Uintah County residents and would-be visitors that the change in transient room tax revenue has risen more in Vernal than any other county in the state. The state fiscal year (FY) begins July 1 and ends June 30. (FY06 was from July 1, 2005 to June 30 of 2006.) The transient room tax revenue reve-nue rose from $167,940 for FY04 to $207,206 in 2005 to $281,360 in FY06. The increase from FY04 to FY05 was 23.4 percent, but from FY05 to FY06 the percent of change was 35.8 percent. Sales and use taxes also showed the greatest percentage of increase in the state, in the tective apparel operating outdoor power equipment combined Uintah County plus Naples, Vernal and Ballard cities. The total sales and use tax revenue of the county plus the cities was $4,797 million in FY04, $6,282 million in 2005, for an increase of 30.9 percent; and $8,156 million in FY06, increasing increas-ing 29.8 percent from 2005. The three cities total increased by 37.2 percent from FY04 to FY05 Vernal 'Km (ISSN 0892-1091) Published every Wednesday for $26 per year in the shopping area and $38 per year out out of the shopping area within the state and $42 per year out of state within the USA by the Vernal Express Publishing Company, 54 North Vernal Avenue, Vernal, Utah 84078. Periodical postage paid at Vernal, Utah, 84078 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to VERNAL EXPRESS, P.O Box 1000, Vernal, Utah 84078. Steven R. Wallis Editor and Publisher Jen Petty Writer Janine Shannon Writer Elizabeth Goode Writer Sarah Forsgren Writer Gabrielle Jones Legals, Obit, Classifieds Patty John Proofreader Jennifer Downard AdsLayout Heaher Crosby AdsLayout Jacque Hobbs Advertising Eric Petty Advertising Harriet Harding Circulation & Billing Phone: 435-789-3511 FAX: 453-789-8690 Website: www.vernal.com email: editorvernal.com DEADLINES News Display Advertising Classified Advertising PublicNotices ."J. ;..'. .?r.T.6r: . ....... MSUfmm All prices are IMS-SRP. Inc. ($3,418 million in FY04 to $4,689 million in FY05); and 33.9 percent per-cent from FY05 to FY06, showing show-ing $8,156 million in 2006. Hospital tax in Uintah County increased 37 percent from FY04 to FY05 and 32.7 percent per-cent from FY05 to FY06, while restaurant tax only increased by 7.7 per cent and 17.1 percent in those years. . . Friday 5 p.m. . . .Friday 5 p.m. .Friday 12 Noon .Friday 12 Noon Available at participating dealers. copyright 2006 STfHL IMS7Q6 1321-63013 8 |