Category SCHOOLS
Salem-Keizer custodians say understaffing is at a “crisis level”
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…