Weber School Board Approves 2011-12 Budget

Weber School Board approved the 2011-12 budget Wednesday night that included a 3% cost of living raise along with paid steps and lanes. The district had to take $3 million out of reserves to do that. It was also Supt. Jacobsen's last board meeting. We owe Supt. Jacobsen a huge thank you for his leadership over the past 10 years in Weber. We also say good bye to Mike Skeen, Roger Bailey and several fine principals. It has been my pleasure to work with these fine people the past 7 years. We look forward to the new leadership and hope to build the same relationships we have enjoyed.

Rick

UEA Summer Leadership, June 13-14

Leaders from around the state will be attending UEA Summer Leadership Conference at the Zermatt Resort in Midway, UT June 13 and 14. There will training sessons and information to help strengthen our local associations.
Rick

Studies link attendance with school performance...who knew???

Read Sara Lenz's article in the Deseret News today about how coming to school helps performance...astonishing...www.deseretnews.com

Rick

Standard Examiner Blasts Teachers, Parents, Students etc

I think the Standard Exaggerator just about hit everyone in Ogden District: parents, students, teachers, administrators, etc. How dare we fight for our "contractual" rights of a salary schedule when our "test scores" are so low. Read the lovely editorial in today's standard examiner. www.standard.net

Rick

Washington High and Ogden High receive School Improvement Grants

Both Washington High and Ogden High are recipients of the Federal funding, "School Improvement Grants" for the next three years. They will each receive about $1 million over the next three years. Their goals are to increase graduation rates and instruction using incentives and lengthened instructional periods. The OEA will monitor the grants (as we have with Odyssey, Dee and Madison) to assure that teachers are protected.

Rick

Ogden School Board sends out email to all employees

You will have to ask an employee of Ogden School District to send you a copy of the "memo" from the Ogden School Board to all employees. Our OEA rally must have hit a nerve, because the memo goes on and on (a page and a half) of reasoning behind why the school district could not pay steps for two years and could not spend 150,000.00 for another half day of pay (that is the only difference in our last proposal and what they ended up paying). The real pathetic part of the message was asking those teachers thinking of moving to greener pastures (Weber) to think about the increases in health insurance premiums. Huh??

Rick

Ogden Summer Institute Starts Today at Marriot

Ogden Institute starts today the Marriot in downtown Ogden.
Rick