Brenda Vollmar, an instructional assistant at Myers Elementary School, and teacher Tyler Lewis greet arriving students on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) By 2023, crossing busy streets will be a little safer for hundreds of students who walk to three east Salem elementary schools. Marion County is planning[Read More…]

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) The vast majority of elementary school families opted to send their kids back for in-person classes in[Read More…]

A student follows one-way arrows to get to her desk at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The Oregon Department of Education on Monday said schools can seat students closer together in classrooms – a change that paves the way for resuming full-time in-person classes. But the[Read More…]

Science teacher Jasmine Filley works with Lincoln Feiring, a year two student in the agriscience program at the Career Technical Education Center, to set up a team meeting on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Most Salem high school students won’t resume in-person classes until mid-April. But dozens of[Read More…]

Fourth grade students work on an assignment in Stephanie Madison’s classroom on the first day back to in-person class for fourth and fifth grade students at Myers Elementary School on Wednesday, March 17, 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Stephanie Madison, a fourth-grade teacher at Myers Elementary School in west Salem, wanted[Read More…]

Stephanie Madison, a fourth grade teacher at Myers Elementary School, leads newly returned students in a lesson on Wednesday, March 17, 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) READ: Cowboy costumes, baby chicks mark first day back for fourth and fifth graders Fourth grade student Apollo Lorenzoni works at his desk on the[Read More…]

Salem-Keizer Superintendent Christy Perry surprised her own school board and some members of the public Tuesday night when she announced the end of the district’s school resource officer program. But the district will keep in place a newer contract with the Keizer Police Department to pay for a police officer[Read More…]

Protestors rallied outside of the Salem-Keizer school district offices on Thursday, June 18 to urge the district to cancel their contract for police officers in schools. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The Salem-Keizer School District will no longer contract with local police departments to station officers at district schools, Superintendent Christy Perry[Read More…]

School board member Jesse Lippold at a spring 2019 meeting of the Salem-Keizer budget committee (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Four years ago, Jesse Lippold Peone and Levi Herrera-Lopez ran against each other for an open seat representing southeast Salem on the Salem-Keizer School Board. Now, the two have found an area[Read More…]

Lucas Gage arrives by bus for the first day of in-person kindergarten at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Gov. Kate Brown on Friday ordered Oregon’s public schools to resume in-person classes for all students by mid-April, with elementary students returning to buildings no later than March[Read More…]