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Show Celebrating more than 92 years of service to the citizens of Eureka. Volume Ninety-Fo- EUREKA, UTAH - April 2, 1999 ur Superintendent reports to board Included in the report of Superintendent Patricia Rowse, at the March meeting of Tintic Board of Education were the following items: Legislative Update. . Superintendent provided the Board with copies of the Utah School Boards and Utah Schools Superintendents 1999 Legislative program funding recommendations. She reviewed the allocations projected by the Legislature for educational funding for the next school year. She reviewed the fund accounts that will be pertinent and apply directly to Tintic District. She will continue to report to the Board as the budget estimates for next year are received. Maintenance date.. Superintendent Up- used will be nationally validated so that comparison can be made to all other students nationwide. Supt. Rowse feels that our students will score higher on the Core Tests because they are being taught the State Core materials. In the year 2002, all students in every grade will be given a pre and post test to be used as an idicator to compare Tintic students to others. In the year 2003, there will be a basic skills test for all tenth graders. If the student passes the test, heshe will not have to the test prior to graduation. If they fail in tenth grade, they will be given the test again in eleventh and if needed, agaid in twelfth. If they fail the test in twelfth grade, the student will not receive a high school diploma but rather a high school completion certificate. Y2K Update.. It was reported that George Haney, technology director, is continuing to examine all aspects regarding the Y2K situation. Mr. Haney feels confident that all technology equipment will be in line as we get to the year 2000. re-ta- ke reported that Tintic High School has indicated the schools intercom system is not working properly mid they would like to have the . system replaced. She asked media director, Linda Durrant, to submit a plan which would better organize the library at Tintic High School. Mrs. Durrant gave the superintendent a diagram on how she would of propose this Folk-fo- od the media center. The biggest factor would be adding work stations which would require additional wiring into these areas to house all the computers. This April is here and it is time to would vacate other areas for for the annual start book shelves and tables. Upon Folk-Foo- planning d Potluck, sponsored the recommendation of the suthe Tintic Historical Society. by perintendent, the Board apThe date this year is April 17. proved the concept, contingent We will meet at the Memorial on funding. 6:30. Plan to bring a The superintendent told the Building at favorite food from your past Board that she and Bill Hansen is fun but not required); (ethnic had met with Fred Garbett and and friends; your own other city officials to discuss the family table setting; and enjoy this availability of water for the unusual "taste" of history. This baseball field at Tintic High has always been one of the School She would like to form a highlights of the annual schedule partnership with the city to and is open to the public. Over provide water to the field once 21 different nationalities have the sod is in place. City officials been documented in the Tintic explessed concerns about water is one fun reserves and availability for this Mining District; this to acknowledge some of summer, therefore, upon the way these. recommendasuperintendents So please, dust off your tion, the Board voted in favor of recipe file or pick your brain for postponing putting in the sod and sprinkler system in for one recipes "Mom" passed down, and plan to join us at the Folk-Foo- d more year. Potluck! Site Based Plans.. It was reported that schools in the district are in line with the Governors reading initiative. The schools have outlined their site Easter Sunday, April 4th, based plans on how to improve marks the beginning of Daylight reading; they are working toTime. Dont forget to wards parental involvement and Savings clocks ahead one set your hour, staff development. There will before retiring on Saturday also be an assessment component added. They will continue to use night. the SAT test in fifth, eight and eleventh grades but will now test About 80 percent of the worthird grade as well. The core lds diamonds are suitable only tests that are currently being for industrial use. event planned Spring forward POOR COPY Number Price $.40 Ch00l dDSSriCt WOlfe 14 OID discipline policy at high school During the March meeting of Tintic District Board of Education, the followng business matters were discussed.. Jesse Sharp presented a proposal to the Board asking for permission to use the Tintic High School gym in order to start a youth dance group. The classes for the group would begin in April and would be held one night a week. Classes would be given to students through starting from sixth grade. The classes would be split into different age groups, depending on the number of students who register. Parents would be required to sign permission slips releasing Tintic School District from any accident liability. Thomas Taylor has also agreed to be a supervisor during the classes. Supt. Rowse explained that there is a district rental policy in place which will need to be followed. After discussion, the Board agreed to support the proposal. Principal Gordon Grim-stea- d brought the Board up to date on how the high school discipline policy is working. Grimstead said they had held another parent meeting to solicit additional input on the effectiveness of the policy. Based on the suggestions they received from parents, the policy has been restructured with the new suggestions typed in bold. The restructured policy was to be sent out in the March Newsletter. Teachers and staff will continue to meet with parents and gather input as the policy continues to be refined before being put in place at the beginning of the next school year. The Student Work Study Requirement Process was discussed. Jay Evans presented to the Board the guidelines at Tintic High School that are in place in order for a student to be approved for work release time from school. Evans explained that when a student seeks approval to be released from school for work study, heshe must be on line with credits for graduation. The student would earn elective credits while at work. The district policy now in place allows for students to work two hours per day. Any work related expenses are the responsibility of the student. The job the student is released to, must be a paid job and after ninety days on the job, they must receive minimum wage. A cooperative training agreement must be signed by student, parent, train pre-scho- ol ing sponsor and teacher coordinator, prior to the students release for work study. There is a work evaluation sheet which is filled out by the employer and reviewed by Mr. Evans once a term or sometimes at mid-terEvans feels this has been a very positive program for the students. He recommended that the release time be increased from two hours to three hours for the 1999-200- 0 school year. The recommendation was approved unanimously, by Board Members. Communication from Board Members included the following: Janice Boswell inquired about two classes being taught at Tintic High School at the same time in the same classroom. m. Supt. Rowse replied that she was aware of the situation and had on different occasions observed in this classroom. She said it appears to be working very effectively, but noted however, that it will not be structured this way next year. Mary Lou Draper said the owner of Lindas Diner had asked for permission to put an advertising sign on the east side of the school fence. The superintendent suggested they contact Principal, Gordon Grimstead, to see if an agreement could be worked out which would allow them to put up the sign. Board President, Mary Lou the imDraper, portance of using consistency in the elementary and high school discipline policy implementation. Superintendent said that teachers and staff are making progress as they continue to amend the policy and feels the policies in both elementary and high school are very effective in helping students take responsibility for their actions. McNultys Juab County Sheriff Dave Carter and Nephi City Police Chief Chad Bowles, have met with state funding agencies to request funding for a special drug task force to be formed in Juab County. They have obeen working together to control the use of illegal drugs and to shut down clandestine meth labs within the county. The County Sheriff and Nephi Police Chief have appointed officers from their respective forces to serve as a drug investigation and prevention committee, but found that they didn't have the money they needed to operate as they wanted to. Bowles and Carter were successful in a bid to obtain a grant to help fund the effort. The two agencies would now cooperate to formally put a special force together just to deal with illegal drug use in the county. Nephi is the only community in Juab County which has its own police force. The rest of the communities contract with the sheriffs office to provide law enforcement in their attend museum conference June and Coleen McNulty were in Salt Lake City on Wednesday representing the Tintic Mining Museum at the annual Utah Museum Volunteers Association Conference. The program was held at the Gore Business Building on the Westminster College campus. Title of the conference was "Art and Artifact; Interpretive Techniques for Docents and Tour Guides." Keynote speaker was Dr. Douglas C. Cox from the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum. He discussed and demonstrated Object Based Education. In the afternoon sessions, discussed learning panelists how to communicate and styles, teach visitors from pre-to active seniors. K The Care and Feeding of Docents panel discussion addressed the issues dealing with volunteers and volunteer programs in different types of cultural institutions. |