Show ) ' x i 'i 'r " Monday 22 2003 Vi ' ' i A3 — Local state and regiohalnews to test scores City salaries spark battle ' After fee first year parents have the option of placing their child in a dif-ferent school Right now these tions only apply to Title-- I schools ' of instruction need to be improved tial when students are on an individ- ual plan he saidi: : ' Although the official results froth last year's exams were released the Utah State ' just by Office of Education last week Thomassaid Ik arid his faculty were not surprised when certain sub- groups had scores that did not meet' “Last year’s teachos were able to the data and find out why '"'y the student did not do well and Lewiston Elementary was the only maybe there are some Changes they school in Cache and Logan Districtscan make to their instruction” that did not make adequate yearly Thomas said Then we kind of gave this this year’s teachers a heads-up- ” progress year “We started putting together a plan One of the most important things teachers can do to help students in of action back in August when we the various subgroups isto have! received the raw data” Thomas said ’ TVe put together a game plan then open communication with pne individual Thomas said For and developed plans for another example students” a student with disabilities may spend Once the students were identified portions of their day in regular class- Thomas worked with the individu- rooms Communication between the als’ teachers from last year and their regular classroom teacher and the present teachers to see where areas special education instructor is essen- '' boundaries the Herald Editor's note: Each weak Journal republishes articles that ran in the newspaper 255075 or 100 years "Utah Then” ie from Dec s 19 1903 SpeMng and grammar appear in the story as it was originally t ago-Toda- written Peanat Politics: City Council Makes a Disgusting Display of : School district officials and Lewis- ton Elementary Principal Gary Thomas said they are confident that teachers and staff are responding to the needs of students who tested below levels of proficiency on last exams year’s the federal No Child Left Under ' Behind regulations Title-- I schools — which are schools that receive federal funding based on the number of students who receive free and reduced lunch — that do hot make adequate yearly progress are put on program improvement for two years end-of-le- : : - end-of-lev- el - ! '' ‘ Sane-exami- ne proficiency levels “We didn’t all of a sudden see this 'data and Say ‘Oh whit happened ' here’” Thomas said “We were aware of the results and had a plan of action befqre the school year even ' - ( began” Cache County School District ' The city council met on Wednesday evening and fixed the salaries of incoming city officials In doing so it gave an exhibition of petty meanness and partisan spite that was simply disgraceful When the matter of fixing salaries first came up a commit- - tee consisting of Messrs Nielsen ' Benson and Quayle was appointed to draft a schedule of salaries and report' to the council See SCHOOL on A6 In oiir schools sSeT ' The committeev spent a lot of time in inquiring into the work required of each officer and fixed the salaries in accordance with their findings Increases were recommended in those offices where' the work has increased considerably of late land the committee did what it deemed was most advantageous for ' the city TA Thoresen Hoffman and Burris were opposed to Increasing salaries at all so when the report came up they began a fight upon it ' The first item in the report was an increase for the Mayor of $100 arid ' Thoresen made a grandstand spiel against' allowing it and when it was':' defeated promptly flopped the other ' : way and demanded $200 v V At first it was agreed to consider the schedule as awhole and if any particular salary was objected to it could be amended Thoresen at' once' did an acrobatic turn by moving dial the Marshal’s salary be increased to $900 and it was finally increased to $800 Thoresen again bang defeated Then Mayor Hansen who in any sort of fairness or decency should have ' kept out of die fight thrust himself "' voluntarily into die debate arguing ' that the salary of each official be fixed by a separate motion and stating in effect that if the ordinance were not adjusted to suit him he would veto iL Nielson asked die Mayor to indicate the salaries he objected to but the latter declined to do so “Have them taken up separately ” he said “and if anyone has any objection to any salary he can make it known”' andthen very adroitly he indicated just what he wanted “Take up the Mayor and then the Attorney and if you think the attorney's salary ' too high then cut it” ' This riled Nielsen who protested Y against the Mayor’s undue interfer- ence and his covert thrust at the Attorney but the one had been given and was thoroughly understood ' “The first is the Mayor’s salary” said Pres Robinson “what shall we do with it7"':' ' “I move it be increased from two to three hundred” said some one o : arid without debate the increase was made V 'S'7 “Attorney " called the chair and Nielsen moved to make the salary $450 per year There was silence for a moment and then the Mayor dipped in his oar again indicating plainly that he wanted fee salary reduced 7' “That’s because he’s a Democrat" ' " sod Nielsen hut the Mayor protested thin no ': political considerations had influ- ' ' - - v'' - - - Betty Simper talks to students about Uteracy Teacher of the Year " encedhim : Thbresen turned lobsea lot of hot air and was called to account by Benson who took a consistent stand in die beginning and maintained it : “I distinctly remember” said he : “that in our city convention when Willard Maugban refused to take the Attorneyship nomination because h: would not pay him to do so Mj ’ Thoresen asked him if he would weregiven him that fee saJaynrauld be placed at a reasonable figure now he is here opposing the fixing of that a book that they are reading at ML Mount Logan literacy teacher earns top prize ries of lying oii the living-roofloor of her home after doing s chores' on the farm and reading They didn't have a television but there was a little bookstore where v her mom used to buy the “Dick and Jane” series and other books for her m : ' toread ByHofeWMss “Looking back oh it I really loved reading” Simper said “I " used to read and think and dream”:' If all started with a collection of fairy-tal- e hooksl The story' of Blue' ” She loved to read anything about Abraham Lincoln and John F : beard was Mount Logan Middle " Kennedy She treasured the' Little School reading teacher Betty Sirn-per- ’s House on the Prairie series and V favorite ' ' couldbe found reading volumes of ' “I remember reading it until fed' the encyclopedia set her mother pages were crumpled " Simper : v'i'-said 'V purchased one at' a time from the V grocery store " v Whenjshelooks back on her Simper who'was' recently named childhood Simper has fond memo - V ' Utah Secondary Literacy Teacher of the Year still loves to read And her sixth-grad- e students are follow jng right dong They read all kinds of bookstall the time Simper : teaches them to reaid for under- standing so they can scrutinize aV" textbook the same as a fiction : ' “I have kids that love to read” Simper said noting that more of the 1 70 students ste teaches tiis year enjoy reading than donV :' “Some of them can turn ever a r e book in two to three '1 ' II She also frequently has students rummagirig thfough new books to see what they are going to read ' next These are t he kinds of readers Simper waqts to produce — V That’s no easy feat for students ' who' are involved in after-schoactivities and have a lot of homework to do) But it isn’t hard to get ' ol - ' to-tal- 100-pag- days" the students to readSimpcr said They read in pairs and are responsi-- " ble for reading a' certain numberof ' pages each night in order to have a discussion Students some times get annoyed with each other for shirking their reading responsibility she said) but not because the didn ’t read enough “I’ll hear students saying ‘You ! 'read too far’” Simper said further read than ‘They'll they're about v supposed to and want one-on-o- ne novel- staff writer '' ' " Eli LucanVHeraid Journal v Loigan Middle School on Tuesday afternoon Simper Was recently named Utah Secondary ? - See READERS on ' ' Ai state regulations to register gun bans Muiy Clergy defy SALTLAKE CITY (AP) — Nearly four dozen leaders of Utah churches and synagogues are refus-in- g to comply with law that requires them to post firearms bans on a state-ru- n Web site saying they don’t want to register wife the state to keep guns out Of their sanctuaries : “We don’t think we need to be on a state list of who’s allowed to be exempt from the gun law” the Most Rev GeorgeNiederauer bishop of the Roman Cafeolic Church’s Salt ' S Lake Diocese said Sunday Niederauer and Several of his fel- lpw religious leaden organized a news conference in Sah Lake City to protest what they consider unconstir tutiofal state interference in church matters The protest came after a newspaper report in November found that no churches had regis- -' ' tered wife the state Bureau of Crimi - ' iSenM ikeWaddoups nal Identification their intention to ban firearms That meant any of the state's 50000-plu- s residents with con- cealed-carry permits could legally guns into any house of worship y- ' ’ lorsyille clergy must also register ' with the BCL which will post the individual bans on its Web site As of Sunday three churchei — Shepherd of the Mountains Lutheran Church in Park City St) Paul’s Epis- -' copal Church in Sait Lake City and Sumhuim Church of Salt Lake 3- " had registered Niederauer and others said they wanted to make clear they don’t allow guns in church and don’t agree wife fee state’s meddlingThey decided to hold die news conference Sunday because houses of worship are packed during the winter holiday season and they wanted to emffeft size that firearms are not welcome iu despite stated gun bans In a joint statement issued Sunday religious leaders said guns had no : plare in holy spaces “We do not need the state of Utah to givie us fo make such a statement or hold stich a position” lhe religious ' : " leaders said "' Earlier this year an amendment to law allowing the concealed-carr- y ' religious organizations to prohibit guns impde houses of worship went J into effect 'services-An earlier version of the law said There have been isolated gun-houses of worship could postsigns related incidents at Utah churches notifying congregants of gun bans Vnda an amendment sponsored by : ova the years- - Episcopal Rev : : - " T ' -- ' ' - -- ' - : : y '7:1: : : Rev David Henry said he knew of- two funerals that had been disrupted by threats on family members of those who died But it’s not just the guns they agreed ’It’s having to go to the state for permission to ban guns from houses of worship” Henry said : No representatives of the Mormon church — Utah’s largest denomina- tion — signed on to the protest But a spokesman for The Church of JesuS Christ of Latter-da- y Saints has a to statement two pointed years ago made by the church's governing' First Presidency that said guns in church were “iampropriate except'- as required by officers of fee law" But fee church hasn’t registered wife See BAN on A6 -- per-missi- on cited a brandish- decade a incident ing ago at St Mark’s Cathednd and Presbyterian GWyneth '' ' - A V1- ‘ ':'j |