Agency Histories

A compulsory school consolidation bill passed by the state legislature in the 1915 session dissolved local school districts and a single Emery County School district came into being, governed by an elected board and with a superintendent appointed by the board as the chief operating officer (Edward A. Geary, "History of Emery County," Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Society, 1996, pp. 230-231). The Mission of the Emery County School District is to provide a comprehensive education that will prepare students to take a proactive and responsible role in an ever-changing world. (Emery County School District web site, http://www.emery.k12.ut.us/DO_vision.html, viewed February 2005.)