Ogden School District Releases Documents Pursuant to Weber County Democratic Education Caucus GRAMA Request

So now that these documents are on the table, we invite our ever-savvy Weber County Forum political wonks to weigh in on "the meaning of all this."

As a followup to our June 19 Weber County Forum story, wherein we announced that "two local groups that sprung up in reaction to controversial decisions by the Ogden School District are pledging to make their voices heard, on both the district and state levels," we'll direct our readers' attention to two recent Utah media stories, which describe the efforts of the efforts of the Weber County Democratic Education Caucus (WCDEC) to obtain "data from the Ogden School District on a wide range of topics, including end-of-level student test scores, how many teachers have left the district in recent years and the experience level of those who will teach this year."

• Democrats ask school questions - Standard-Examiner 8/22/13
• Weber County democrats demand answers - ABC4 8/23/13 

As interested readers will recall, WCDEC officials inititiated a focused inquiry, via the below original GRAMA document production request:

• Weber Education Caucus Letter 6/12/13

It's been a bit of a slow moving project, but here's the Ogden School District's mid-August response:

• Ogden School District Response Letter 8/15/13 

As set forth in this letter, here are the documents apparently produced to date:

• Interlocal Agreement Real Estate 10/27/09
• Interlocal Agreement Mitigation Payments 10/27/09
• RDA Projects Summary Excel Spreadsheet (4 pages)
• Teacher Retention 2007 - 2012
• Preliminary Results Language Arts
• Preliminary Results Math
• Total District Salaries 

As an added bonus, we've embedded this video clip, depicting WCDEC member Ben Pales' related presentation at a recent Ogden School Board meeting:


A Weber County Forum Tip O' The Hat to the Weber County Democratic Education Caucus for keeping the Ogden School District's feet to the fire in this matter.

So now that these documents are on the table, we invite our ever-savvy Weber County Forum political wonks to "don the green eye shades" and weigh in on "the meaning of all this."