Members of the Association of Salem-Keizer Education Support Professionals protest high workloads outside a school board meeting Tuesday, May 11, 2021 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) The custodians who clean Salem’s schools say they’re overworked and understaffed. The district’s classified employee union, the Association of Salem-Keizer Education Support Professionals, objected to what[Read More…]
SCHOOLS
Protesters with Latinos Unidos Siempre want a clear statement that hate groups aren’t welcome in local schools
Aztec dancers perform at a protest organized by Latinos Unidos Siempre outside a Salem-Keizer School Board meeting on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) As the Salem-Keizer School Board began a meeting Tuesday night, air horns sounded and Aztec dancers began a ritual dance in the parking lot outside.[Read More…]
As Salem-Keizer emerges from the pandemic, $1.5 billion budget adds more social workers, alternative education
The Salem-Keizer School District will add more counselors and social workers to district schools and create a middle school alternative education program under a $1.5 billion budget proposal Superintendent Christy Perry presented Tuesday to the district’s budget committee. The budget assumes local schools will resume full-time, in-person classes in the[Read More…]
As Salem-Keizer schools resume, numbers show how many students have Covid and who’s staying home
Students tour Houck Middle School on the first day of in-person sixth grade on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Since Salem-Keizer schools resumed in-person classes for middle and high school students, a small sliver have contracted Covid and white students have been slightly more likely to return to[Read More…]
Poised to graduate early, Salem high school seniors get a free quarter of college
Brayan Quevedo, right, a senior at Sprague High School, and teacher Jamie Ellis, left, on April 23, 2021. Quevedo is one of about 175 Salem-Keizer seniors taking college courses through the new Senior Launch program (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Melissa Espinoza, 18, had planned to graduate from North Salem High School[Read More…]
McNary’s Erik Jespersen named Oregon Principal of the Year
McNary principal Erik Jespersen, left, student body president-elect Griffen Hubbard and sophomore class president-elect Mariah Benitez shovel dirt at the McNary groundbreaking ceremony on May 17, 2019. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Erik Jespersen, principal of McNary High School in Keizer, is the Oregon 2021 High School Principal of the Year. Jespersen’s[Read More…]
Salem-Keizer School Board candidate Q&A – Zone 3 (south Salem)
May 2021 Salem-Keizer School Board candidates for zone 3: Ashley Carson Cottingham, left, and Linda Farrington On May 18, local voters will select four new members of the Salem-Keizer School Board. Although candidates must live in the district they represent, voters get a say in all four races. Salem Reporter[Read More…]
In violation of state policies, Salem-Keizer students won’t be given standardized tests this spring
Giovanni Fajardo Perez, a student in Crystal Magee’s kindergarten and first grade classroom, uses colored pencils on the first day back to school at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Students in Salem-Keizer schools won’t take state standardized tests this spring after a split school board voted[Read More…]
PHOTOS: Houck, McKay welcome students back in-person
Houck Middle School teacher Madison Jones leads a tour of the building on the first day of in-person sixth grade on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) More than 3,600 sixth and ninth-graders had another first day of school Tuesday as Salem-Keizer middle and high schools welcomed back their[Read More…]
Marching band, red carpets and balloons for middle and high school students returning in Salem-Keizer
Gabriela Rendon and sister Vanessa head in to Houck Middle School for the first day of in-person sixth grade on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) As the first four Houck Middle School students walked in the front door Tuesday morning, a half-dozen teachers and administrators erupted in cheers.[Read More…]
