Morgan School District

OGDEN -- Morgan School District is the first in this area to adopt a new cybersafety program to educate teachers and students about positive Internet guidelines and ethics.

The program is Generation Safe, and nicknamed iKeepSafe. Former Utah first lady Jaclyn Leavitt, who is championing the program, spoke Wednesday at Morgan Middle School, first to school administrators about program features, then to a seventh-grade class, to whom she taught a digital lesson plan about philanthropy.

"It's about the safe and healthy use of technology," Leavitt told administrators. "Our children need to have these computer skills. If they don't, it will hurt them with future employers. But we also need to protect them, detect inappropriate use of the Internet and intervene when there is a problem."

MORGAN — A recent audit of Morgan County School District uncovered two findings and has administrators worried about the future.

MORGAN — The school district here put a Morgan High School employee on administrative leave last week while the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office conducts a criminal investigation.

MORGAN -- While researching a new building-rental policy, Morgan County School Board members are learning district buildings are used by the public more than they thought.

"Things are coming out of the woodwork," Business Administrator D'Lynn Poll said. "We had no clue."

MORGAN -- District officials are making sure they have things in order before the public comes knocking on the doors of the Trojan Century Center, a 46,000-square-foot physical education center scheduled for January 2012 completion.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Educators upset about a proposed bill that could change the hiring and firing practices of local school boards have inundated state school board members with letters and emails.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah State Board of Education has released Adequate Yearly Progress reports on area schools, and most schools' scores reveal a mixed bag of academic strengths and weaknesses.

The small Morgan School District has the most to crow about, with all of its schools passing.

Surprising no one is the fact that the inner-city Ogden School District is struggling as a result of student poverty and a high demand for coursework in English as a second language.