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AUGUST 17, 2009
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Vol. 21, No. 196
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Gas prices Cost of a gallon of regular unleaded fuel on Sunday
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Pitching shoes
Fuel Stop ................... $2.62 West Kum & Go ....... $2.62 7-Eleven ................... $2.62 Petro West ............... $2.71 Phillips 66............................ $2.75 Bob’s Conoco ...................... $2.75 Hilltop Sinclair ..................... $2.74 Anglers Kum & Go ............... $2.62 Mount Werner Sinclair........... $2.64 Shell ........................................ $2.79 Shop & Hop ............................. $2.64
Growth model adds to school districts’ evaluation tools, superintendents say
State Average ....................$2.56 .................... National Average ...............$2.64
S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
Toddlers bring smiles
Jack Weinstein
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS
Pretty Baby Contest kicks off events during last day of Routt County Fair Page 3
SPORTS
Racing hard Page 20
MATT STENSLAND/STAFF
Steamboat Springs resident Bill Petrillo throws a horseshoe Saturday during the Community Agriculture Alliance Horseshoe Pitching Contest at the Routt County Fair. Petrillo and his partner, recent Hayden High School graduate Kylee Sweetser, of Hayden, won the match.
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As a parent, imagine being able to see a report that details your child’s yearly progress throughout his or her education. Now imagine comparing that information to other students in your child’s school and to other students throughout Colorado. You don’t have to imagine anymore. With the Colorado Growth Model, a new evaluation tool the state Department of Education unveiled Aug. 7, parents can do just that. The growth model answers questions including: What is the growth rate of a student? What should the growth rate be for a student to reach a certain level of achievement in a certain period of time? And what are the highest sustained growth rates and under what conditions could they improve? Rich Wenning, associate commissioner of the Colorado Department of Education, said its purpose is to define students’ growth and whether that’s good enough. And it evaluates students, groups, schools, districts and the state, he said. The growth model was mandated by Senate Bill 163, which See CSAP, page 14
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