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Vol. 21, No. 189
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Advocates to host benefit Decadent Desserts fundraiser to include treats from 20 local chefs Page 6
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Steamboat Springs cancer survivor Luther Berntson waves a flag while walking in the Survivor’s Lap during the Relay For Life of Steamboat Springs on Friday at Steamboat Springs High School. The event concludes this morning. For additional coverage, see Sunday’s Steamboat Pilot & Today.
Soroco makes CSAP leaps Soroco High School, Steamboat Springs Middle School recognized for growth
Sailors football starts Monday Steamboat squad to participate in weeklong conditioning camp Page 25
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At the beginning of the 200809 school year, teachers and administrators with the South Routt School District set a series of quarterly goals. The idea was to improve CSAP writing scores for the district, which had lagged
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just behind the state average in most grades at the end of 2008. This year’s CSAP test results, released Friday morning, show large percentage leaps in Soroco at almost every grade level — 50 percent of the students who took the test as fourth-graders this spring scored at proficient or advanced levels. In 2008, 24 percent of that same group
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— sometimes called a “cohort group” — achieved proficient or advanced scores. “We felt like our efforts really paid off. … That was really, I shouldn’t say our total focus, but by far our major emphasis was on writing,” said Scott Mader, superintendent of the South Routt School District. South Routt students also posted gains
in all but one grade in reading; math results were mixed. Soroco High School and Steamboat Springs Middle School made the Colorado Department of Education’s 2009 list of high-performing schools, also released Friday morning. The 161 schools on the list “demonstrated See CSAP, page 16
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