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Ogden district administrative changes prompt parental worry about students, teachers

Last updated Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 10:03pm

OGDEN — Some parents of students in the Ogden School District say they are tired of administrative changes that don’t seem to make sense; they question whether teachers can function effectively while fearing they will lose their jobs; and they don’t see the logic of decisions made this school year by the Ogden School Board and Superintendent Brad Smith.

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Ogden School District announces slew of administrative changes

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 5:41am

OGDEN — The Ogden School District has shuffled its deck of administrators, moving many around and discarding at least one, in hopes of building a winning hand to take the underperforming district into a more promising future.

Thirteen of the district’s 20 schools will see personnel changes.

Superintendant Brad Smith on Monday announced the hires for three new district positions created last month, and he named seven new principals and five new assistant principals, some new to the positions and others just moving between schools.

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AYP report failures for Ogden schools

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 11:37pm

A previous posting of Ogden School District schools failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, based on a Utah State Board of Education report, mistakenly included schools that were granted AYP waivers because they made significant progress from the previous year.

The list that follows is updated.

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(KRISTIN HEINICHEN/Standard-Examiner) Marcelina Kubica, 12, of South Ogden, works on assembling a hydraulic crane she calls “Larry,” with her dad, Kris, during Weber State University’s Parent-Daughter Engineering Day on Saturday.

Parents help daughters engineer a future

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, February 26, 2011 - 11:14pm

OGDEN -- Parent-and-daughter teams furiously taped and wrapped together straws and popsicle sticks, all with the goal of constructing a hydraulic crane powered by two water-filled syringes connected by clear plastic tubing.

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Sixth-grader Emma Kozlewski gets help from teacher Jana Anderson, the art specialist at Polk Elementary School, while Asia Rostkowski (right) works on her art project during art class on Tuesday.

Polk Elementary students draw a story about Cinderella

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 12:49am

OGDEN -- Students at Polk Elementary School did a special project last month in their art class -- telling the story of Cinderella with art.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Joseph Trotter assembles his saxophone at band practice. Band is just one activity funded by the school land trust. Schools throughout the state receive funds.

Community councils guide Utah schools, determine how to spend land trust funds

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Friday, February 4, 2011 - 12:26am

OGDEN -- Thursday was a busy day at Polk Elementary School. School starts early for some sixth-graders in a school band. Others spend an hour of their day with an art specialist, while about 200 others participate in the school's science fair. These varied activities are funded with money from the school land trust allocated to a special group called the community council.

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(KRISTIN HEINICHEN/Standard-Examiner) Teacher Becky Weeks explains to Taylor Canyon Elementary School fourth-graders how the Braille language works before her student, Paula Ward, an 11th-grader at the Utah School for the Deaf and the Blind in Ogden, uses Braille to read them “The Snowy Day” on Thursday as part of the nationwide Read for the Record Day.

Team Effort / 11th-grader reads Braille, students listen up -- all to help break world record

Rachel J. Trotter, Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Friday, October 8, 2010 - 12:04am

OGDEN -- Some Taylor Canyon Elementary students experienced two new things Thursday morning: They helped break a world record, and they were read to by a Braille reader for the first time.