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Show EHS Receives $3,100 To Improve Students' Academic Performance ESCALANTE - Escalante High School (EHS) has received $3, 1 00 for the 200 1 -2002 school year from the Utah School Trust Land Program to improve student stu-dent academic performance. Money from this fund is distributed distrib-uted to all schools in the state thanks to legislation passed in 1999. When Utah received statehood, state-hood, Congress gave lands to the schools in the state in exchange for the state not taxing federal land. The lands, often referred to as "school sections," are managed by the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration and must, by law, be used to generate money for our schools. The money is placed in a permanent savings account which is never spent but invested. The interest earned from the permanent fund has gone to the schools in the state for the past two years. Escalante High School focused its efforts the first year by starting a program to help motivate and direct seventh graders as they entered a high school atmosphere. The school provided orientation, day plan ners, "Team EHS" visors, and get-acquainted sessions before school started. This school year, the second year of the School Trust Land Program, the school has reestablished the Pride Contest. The program was originally started in 1981 to build .school pride and- spirit and motivate and reward students in different areas of excellence and improvement: honor roll, unsolicited unso-licited acts of service, communi- ty service, attendance, GPA, etc. Students of the month have been awarded embroidered polo shirts so everyone will know of their achievements. Academic athletes will be honored with a plaque in the trophy case. Ed-net Ed-net tuition for high school students stu-dents enrolled in college classes has also been covered by trust lands funds. Parents are encouraged to submit suggestions that would promote academic improvement, improve-ment, testing, or motivation to Escalante High School Principal Kirt Robinson or program director direc-tor Susan Shurtz at 826-4205. More information is also available avail-able at www.schooland trust.org ) - , ..- - - -l : ' , '-n' n I Panguitch High School played a tough game in the finals of the Region 15 tournament, but fell to Valley High School on Saturday night. PHS and Escalante High School will both advance to the state tournament this weekend in Cedar City. |