It’s becoming clearer that the best days of the Park City School District (PCSD) are behind it. Our success has been built on teachers’ backs, reputation, and the thought that money can buy success. Today, teachers are leaving, we’ve fallen to the 14th best PUBLIC high school in Utah (that’s not good), and tax increases …

I received my property tax notice from Summit County yesterday. It’s up $1,500 from last year. As they say, “that’s real money.” Three things seem to influence that. One, my property’s “value” went up by $600K. Two, the Park City School District increased taxes. Three, the state increased its levy for schools. I am fortunate …

Jill Gildea. I met you when you first started. You had promise. Since then, we’ve given you a nice house to live in. We have given you a car to use. We’ve paid you over $400,000 a year. In return, we just wanted good schools. We wanted lack-of-drama. We wanted honesty. Wherever we are, it’s …

Sometimes it is hard to get things right. In the case of the Park City School District, sometimes is every time. Frankly, it’s getting old covering the incompetence of the school district. I would like to write about something else. In the latest case, construction was paused on Jeremy Ranch Elementary School this week because …

The more I think of leadership at the Park City School District, the more I think of this: Except, you have to give Seargent Shultz more credit. He actually knew what was going on. I can’t say the same for Park City Schools. As many of you know, construction was paused on Jeremy Ranch Elementary …

The Park City School District can’t get out of its own way. John Steinbeck would have been impressed. A recent lawsuit was filed against the Park City School District, the school board, the superintendent, and ancillary people at the district regarding not reporting child abuse, sexual abuse, bullying, and generally treating students horribly. There are …

A Jeremy Ranch parent emailed me and asked a simple question. “If the Park City School District can’t do a simple thing like get building permits, how do we trust they can renovate every school in the district?” Good question. Here’s another one. If the head of the Summit County planning department says that Jeremy …

For years, the cry around Park City has been for affordable housing. Then, some bright people came up with the idea of attainable housing. Evidently, in Park City, attainable means a wealthy person who is not that wealthy. We then are encouraged to worry about a 1,500-unit development where 100 units are “affordable,” 500 are …

It seems everyone is resigned to our fate with Dakota Pacific. There is land that is supposed to be a Tech Park below UOP. Dakota Pacific bought it based on that designation. They can’t make enough money on that so they want to change it into commercial space and a bunch of homes. Our local …