Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Emmet Sets Goals

The Emmet School District held a public meeting on September 14 in the Ross Gymnasium to inform patrons of the school's goals, policies, programs and improvements.

Emmet School goals for the 1998-99 school year are:

• Improve the average reading score on the SAT-8 for students in grades K-4 to 50%.
• Increase attendance rate for students in K-12 to the state average of 94.1%.
• Improve the completion rate for high school seniors to the state average of 83%.
• Increase the effective use of technology.

1. Reading recovery program;
2. ABC pre-kindergarten program;
3. K-4 summer program;
4. SHOTS, a summer enrichment program for K-6;
5. Electronic bookshelf in the junior high school;
6. Student academic incentive program;
7. Eye catcher program in the elementary school;
8. Incentive program for students scoring above the 50% on the SAT-9;
9. A greater variety of extra-curricular activities;
10. After-school tutoring program;
11. Career awareness day;
12. Teacher in-service in technology
13. CCCnet computer program in K-8; and
14. All classrooms accessible to the Internet.

security system for all high school classrooms; purchase of a new school bus; Technology Challenge Grant award of $55,000 to purchase laptop computers in grades K-8 (the grant also provided for extensive teacher in-service and provides for all rooms to be connected to the CCCnet); and completion of a new air conditioned gymnasium.

Emmet School continues to provide an after school day care program for benefit of working parents. The day care program stays open till 6 p.m. daily for a nominal fee.

Emmet School's enrollment has increased 45% since 1990. It is in compliance with all state standards, according to Dr. Gene Ross, superintendent of the district.