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Show STICKS TO BUDGET BOARD By Ruth Smith The Rich County School Board held its monthly planning meeting this week, with board members Merrill Muir, Mike Madsen, Stuart Wamsley and Schools Superintendent Giles Parker present. The minutes from the previous meeting were read and approved, and bills were ap- proved for paying. Principal James Bingham, South Rich High School, spoke to the board about needing more work time for his secretary, and said he needed an aide for the third grade, which has 36 students. Board members agreed they understood the problem, but pointed out that they could not afford any additional help which would surpass their budget. North Rich High School Principal Daryl Nelson said his school needed more help in of this month's contest at North Rich Elementary School, under a joint sponsorme ship by the PTA Medical as pictured: and the local EMT's(Emer-gen- Tech's). Poster winners GARDEN from Page One) great part in insuring success for conducting instruction and periodically checking progress to insure that students are learning those essential skills identified for their grade this program is to check that identified skills for that school year are adequate by testing at the end of each school year. Steps required in this program: (1) Becoming familiar with essential level, and needed grad- e-level skills. (2) Identifying skill areas that may ne- additional instructional emphasis. (3) Planning instruction and noting how priority skill areas will be emphasized. (4) Checking student progress in learnskills. ing the essential grade-lev- el ed (5) Acknowledge accomplishments and pl- anning steps. "This program isn't taken lightly,"eletest and insure that said. mentary students get all skills needed to Schow "We 250 The Garden information to check how progress is going in relation to the grade. Teachers use assessment information to learn which skills the student is learning best and worst. The administrator uses the information to see how the school is doing. Procedures for implementation includes testing, scoring , analyzing and using all results. "I'm very impressed with the program," said. "It's practical. I like it." said South Rich Elementary School has students. South Rich High has 127, North He REORGANIZED Rich Elementary has 120, and North Rich High City Library Board was reorganized Tuesday at a special meeting in the Town Offices. Mrs. Wilford Robinson of Lake town was named as the newest board member. Officers named in- cluded; Graham Jones, President; Pauline Bailey, vice president; Barbara Bennior, -treasurer; secretary- and Cloree Jensen, board School has 65 students. Total school district enrollment was 562 students, about what the board had projected Board members then reviewed information from the State Legislature which proposed a salary scale change. The legislative proposal would change traditional teacher pay scale based from the longivity, to the new system based on a career ladder arrangement based on evaluat- on ion, responsibilities, and performance. The proposal was given unanious support from the School Board Association, the Utah State Parent Teacher Association, and by the Society of School Superintendents. member. ; Winter hours for the library will6 from 2 p.m. to be on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from 12 noon to 6 p.m. on Thursdays and Saturdays. Dorthea Garrett and Bess Huefner will serve as board members in advisory positions. r SHOP get these students through high school." Assessment of benchmark skills by each student are evailuated at the beginning of the school year, at mid year, and an evaluation of what was learned at the end of the school year. Students and parents will use assessment Schow nt. were Ebom, sixth grade ;Craij Arnett, fifth grade (not pictured), Michell Johnson, fourth grade; Barr Huefner, third grade; Curtis Robinson, second grade; and Jeannie Gray, first grade. Contestants were allowed to get acquainted with an ambulance which was brought to school by three of our local EMT's. A CITY LIBRARY BOARD cy Robyn (Continued the kitchen, but board members repeated their allegiance to the budget. Schools Superintendent Parker presented the financial report to the board, and gave figures on the county's beginning enrollme- LOCAL IT PAYS NEED NEW SHOES? See your authorized Mason Shoe Dealer, Asel Mattson. He has 375 styles and colors for both men and women. Chose from them. Call him at City, Ut. in January 3, 1984. As Garden President of the Utah Society of Su- perintendents, Parker is supporting a legislative proposal concerning the small school formula. The proposal is that all small schools wi 11 have a base of 115 WPU's. This would be a big advantage to the small schools. In our district, it would make a difference of $63, 000 at North Rich School, and $17,000 at South Rich School. Supt. Parker said he will be working with the Utah Legislature on the proposal. Some discussion was held on the Governor's suggestion to cut education finances. The board agreed any further financial reduction would YOU 946-32- 00 calendar for the school year was reaffirmed. Saturday attendance is lined up for the students from South Rich. Those Saturday dates include November 19, December 3 and The greatly damage Rich County education. The school board approved a letter(print-e- d in this paper) to Governor Matheson in response to his request. Randolph Mayor Roger Telford asked for support for a county swimming pool. School board members wrote a letter in support of the idea, agreeing it would make good and wise use of the swimming facility, but pointed out that no financial support is now available for the project. |
