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The school district decided to eliminate half a teacher after receiving a letter of resignation from the Encampment art instructor. After 30 years of teaching and building up the Encampment School’s art program, Pam Kraft decided to retire. She said she wants to stay involved in art, but also wants more time to spend with her family and travel. Kraft will officially retire at the end of the school year. When Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD 2) received her letter of resignation, Superin...
The Carbon County School District 2 (CCSD 2) Board of Trustees appointed four of its board members to the new Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) Wednesday at its monthly meeting. Tanya Bartholomew, Diane Berger, Joe Gaspari and Bob Patton will serve on the BOCES board. Thursday, Bob Gates said Western Wyoming Community College (WWCC) will appoint a board member. Once the BOCES is formed, Gates said the school will be able to teach concurrent classes to the CCSD 2 students....
Music teacher John Steinhardt and his two elementary school bands from Medicine Bow and Elk Mountain put some rock and roll into the Jan. 21 Carbon County School District No. 2 Board of Directors meeting. Steinhardt said CCSD#2 Superintendent Bob Gates came up with the idea and Steinhardt and his students ran with it. I thought it was a good way for us to showcase (the students) and their achievements, Gates said. The Saratoga and Encampment choirs sang at the December CCSD#2 board meeting, and...
School security is always something Superintendent Bob Gates, Carbon County School District #2 Board of Directors and principals talk about, but events like the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut put the conversation front and center. The challenge is to put some practical procedures in place without creating a logistical nightmare. Short of turning them into a prison and drastically restructuring students’ educational experience, there is no way to make schools c...
The Board of Trustees for Carbon County School District No. 2 wants to update its policy governing employee use of social media and considered four policies ranging from explicit and specific to broad and general at its meeting Monday. Cell phones and social media are pervasive in society today. Staff and coaches often rely on the use of texting to organize students and communicate the logistics of travel to and from events. Board member Kay Lynn Palm said the overwhelming message she got was... Full story
Carbon County School District No. 2 Board of Trustees looked into a couple different ways to keep the wheels on their buses going round and round at their November meeting Monday, first by talking about offering some drivers benefits, and then by mulling hiring a district mechanic to do the maintenance and repair work on their fleet. “We always have a need for bus drivers,” Superintendent Bob Gates said. “(We) have been talking about ways to expand the number of bus drivers. Through the process... Full story