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Data shows more than 80% of Salem-Keizer elementary school students opted to return in-person
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…
Oregon will allow less space between students in class, but Salem-Keizer not planning changes
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…
Wanted: Salem high school students who love hands-on learning
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…
Cowboy costumes, baby chicks mark first day back for fourth and fifth graders
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…
PHOTOS: Fourth and fifth graders join younger classmates in Salem-Keizer schools
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…
Salem-Keizer ended its school resource officer program, but police will still have a scaled-back role in the district
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…
Salem-Keizer won’t renew contracts for police in local schools
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…
Proposed overhaul of Salem-Keizer school board elections could mean more local campaigns
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…
Brown orders Oregon public schools to resume in-person classes by April 19
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…