Why Again Should We Tear Down Treasure Mountain Junior High?

During last night’s School Board Master Planning Committee meetings, people were divided into 6 groups. Each of these groups decided where they should put schools on a map (if they were to choose). This included tearing down and building new schools. The process started with Molly Smith, the meeting organizer, presenting example solutions. A participant asked why …

Continue reading

We’re Live Blogging Tonight’s Master Planning Committee Meeting

Tonight, Park City School District is holding their second citizen-based Master Planning Committee meeting. These meetings are designed to get public input on the construction needs in the school district. The first meeting was generally regarded as a waste of time. We’ve heard that the School District recognized there were issues with the first meeting …

Continue reading

Has Anyone Seen the EPA Soil Report on Treasure Mountain?

We’ve been waiting to get our hands on the EPA’s soil report for Treasure Mountain. We emailed Dr Ember Conley a few days ago and asked whether we needed to GRAMA (government record request) request it. Her reply was: Hi, We will have an interview on KPCW on Tuesday, April 7th and a release of …

Continue reading

Park City Parents … Stanford is Now Free

Dreaming of your little Suzy going to the Harvard of the West? Or perhaps these days Harvard is the “Stanford of the East.” Well, we have good news for you. Stanford is now free, if your parents make less than $125,000 per year and have less than $300,000 in assets. We’re not sure what percentage …

Continue reading

Is Our School’s Dual Immersion Program Like Pert Plus?

If you have kids in school, dual language immersion is probably a concept you love or hate. Dual language immersion (DLI) is a program where students spend half the day in English with one teacher and half the day with another teacher in a second language (French or Spanish). DLI has been a hot issue around …

Continue reading