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Office Hours With Dr Conley (5/6/2016)
Wow. If you wanted drama, you should have been at Office Hours With(out) Dr Conley this morning at Hugo Coffee. Each Friday, through the end of May, school district personnel are at Hugo Coffee to engage in conversation and answer questions. Today, School District Communications Specialist Molly Miller did an admirable job in the absence of School Board …
Social Media Erupts Over School District Handling of Threat to High School
In October 2015, the Park City School District received a threat directed at teachers and an Administrator at the High School. Last night at about 9:30 the school district sent an email about the issue to the media. Today, the community has erupted on social media. It’s not good. Here are a few examples of the …
Were School District Policies Followed With Regard to Students Making Threats That Impacted the Kearns Campus Today?
Late last night Park City School District Superintendent Dr Ember Conley issued a press release notifying the public that there were threats made (in October 2015) against the Kearns Campus that mentioned today’s date. This morning, in an interview with KPCW’s Leslie Thatcher, Dr. Conley said that it was Park City School District students who had made …
Opt Out of the Yellow Pages
My first internship in college was working for Sprint Publishing and Advertising (one of the largest yellow pages providers in the country at that time). This was before the Internet was used by hardly anyone outside of universities, research and development, and government. I was tasked with task of trying to electronify their yellow pages. …
Threat Made Against Kearns Campus for Today (May 3rd)
We just received a release from the Park City School District citing a threat made about the Kearns Campus back in October, 2015 that mentioned today’s date (May 3, 2016). Therefore, you may see an increased police presence today. Both the district and police department are doing the right thing by being vigilant. Most likely this …
Office Hours With Ember Conley (4/30/2016)
The Park City School District Superintendent, Dr. Ember Conley, meets every Friday (through May 27) with citizens in an open, friendly environment at Hugo Coffee. No topic is off-limits. Each week, Dr Conley answers questions about what the Park City Schools are doing. Below, is a summary of last Friday’s discussion. Much of the session …
What About Increasing Frequency of Buses?
It seems that people I have heard from think that vans providing on-demand pickup to deliver residents to bus stop has zero-to-little chance of succeeding in getting people on buses. So, here is another potential plan by the city and county: Increased frequency. Instead of waiting 30 minutes for a bus they will come every 7 …
Summit County Drug Court Serves and Saves
The Summit County Drug Court was established in 2011 to allow non-violent felony drug offenders who meet certain criteria an opportunity to avoid lengthy incarceration by voluntarily participating in a program that provides structured regular drug testing and monitoring of the offender for compliance with firm conditions. Recently BYU students did a review of program …
An Interesting Idea from Summit County on Transportation
Last week I had the chance to sit down with Summit County’s person in charge of transportation, Caroline Ferris. One of the issues we discussed was buses. I mentioned that one of the impediments I see with regard to adoption is that often people either need to walk a long way or would need to …
Tour Treasure Mountain Junior High
The school district is ramping up efforts to convince you that TMJH needs to meet the solid end of a wrecking ball. I don’t think most people probably need convinced of that. Hopefully, though, the district will use these same sorts of efforts when more controversial items are brought up (i.e. the new 5/6 school). …
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