Category SCHOOLS
Principal Sara LeRoy leaving North Salem High School after large gains in graduation rate
Sara LeRoy, North Salem High School principal (Special to Salem Reporter/Moriah Ratner) For the second time in four years, North Salem High School will start the year with a new principal. Sara LeRoy, a former North teacher who took over as principal in 2017 is…
AGENDA: Salem-Keizer board will consider 2020-21 budget at June 9 meeting
The Salem-Keizer School Board will vote Tuesday night on a $1.5 billion district budget that’s unlikely to become reality when school kicks off in September. The budget, developed before coronavirus-related shutdowns pummeled state revenue, contains none of the cuts that will likely be needed in…
How will distance learning impact Salem-Keizer students? No one really knows.
Jared Vergara Santana, left, Evelyn Francis, right, Iris Johnson, right back and Lillyana Green, back left, work on newspaper articles at Hoover Elementary School. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) In late May, about 10 teachers and classroom aides from Judson Middle School gathered online to plan for…
Latino groups push for improved bilingual education, mental health support in budget
Students organized by Latinos Unidos Siempre urged the new Salem-Keizer School Board to address the mental health needs of immigrant students and stop policies that disproportionately punish students of color at a July 2019 meeting. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Latino community organizations are calling on Salem-Keizer…
PHOTOS: Food flows to needy Salem families as pandemic impacts persist
Christy Perry, Salem-Keizer School District superintendent, carries a stack of boxes over to a car during a Farm to Families food box program distribution on Friday, May 22, at Washington Elementary School. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) In April, Marion Polk Food Share handed out one million…
Salem-Keizer budget committee considers $1.5 billion budget with COVID impacts still unknown
The Salem-Keizer budget committee in a May 19, 2020 meeting. Salem-Keizer’s budget committee will vote Tuesday night on a $1.5 billion district budget that represents an unlikely best-case scenario for Oregon’s second-largest school district in the coming year. The 233 page document, drafted before the…
In effort to help students with trauma, Houck Middle School will have new administration
Principals Suzanne Leonard, left, Julia DeWitt and Andrew Schiefer will take over new Salem-Keizer middle schools in the fall of 2020 (Courtesy/Salem-Keizer School District) Houck Middle School will have a new administration in the fall, part of a district effort to shift the school’s focus…
McKay English teacher wins Willamette region’s Teacher of the Year award
McKay High School teacher Larkin Foley (Courtesy/Salem-Keizer School District) As a college senior at Willamette University, Larkin Foley got a chance to tutor local high school students. She was at the whiteboard, writing out an algebra problem for a small group. As the math started…
Thousands of Salem-Keizer educators will be furloughed to help balance budget
Highland Elementary 2nd grade teacher Becky Montgomery works with a student during a computer math exercise Wednesday March 13, 2019. (Fred Joe/Special to Salem Reporter) This article was updated on May 20 following a school board vote. Thousands of local school employees will be furloughed…