By Jolene FarleyThe Hills-Beaver Creek school board approved the hiring of a band instructor and high school art teacher during a short meeting Thursday, June 24.Joshua Hogberg, a recent Northwestern College, St. Paul, graduate, will be the new fifth-through- 12th-grade band instructor with a salary of $29,150. "I think his thinking and our thinking and his beliefs and our beliefs … it’s a match," Superintendent Dave Deragisch said. Hogberg replaces Brent Steinert who left the district this spring to pursue other career opportunities.Mary Petersen is the new half-time high school art teacher at a salary of $16,325. Petersen worked for the district from 1989 through 1995 until the elementary art program was cut. She has continued to substitute teach for the district. Gregg Ebert who retired from the district this year, formerly filled the art position.In other business: oThe board accepted a bid of $30,530 from Continental Western Group for property, auto, and liability insurance coverage. The bid doesn’t include workmen’s compensation insurance. Last year’s coverage cost the district $29,598, according to Deragisch. The district purchases insurance through the Exchange State Bank Insurance Agency. The bank asks for bids from various insurance companies. oA graph on the individual student reports for the Minnesota State Comprehensive Assessments results wasn’t updated to reflect this year’s data.No students in the district were adversely affected by the error, according to Elementary Principal Todd Holthaus. Data Recognition Corporation, the company that compiles the data, is sending out updated results. The tests are administered to third- and fifth-graders.
