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PHOTOS: In Salem, a second “first day of school” as in-person classes resume
A student follows one-way arrows to get to her desk at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) More than 2,000 Salem and Keizer kids met their teachers face-to-face for the first time in nearly a year as kindergarten and first graders resumed…
Salem’s youngest kids head back to in-person classes
Teacher Crystal Magee wipes down Giovanni Farjado Perez’s desk at Richmond Elementary on the first day back at school on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) As parents dropped their students at the front door of Richmond Elementary School, a bus pulled up to the…
A year into online school, more of Salem’s youngest students are struggling to read
Fewer Salem elementary school students are on track to read proficiently by third grade than one year ago, according to data shared with the Salem-Keizer School Board last week. The same data also show particular difficulties for special education students and those learning English, including…
PHOTOS: What elementary school will look like as Salem students return March 2
Jessica Brenden, Hallman Elementary principal, walks down a hallway with traffic flow arrows and dividers on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Kindergarten and first graders in Salem schools will resume in-person classes on March 2, with other elementary schools added in the coming…
Teachers prepare to welcome Salem’s youngest students back to classrooms
A bulletin board promoting masks and social distancing guidelines at Hallman Elementary on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) There is no more rug in Crystal Magee’s classroom. Stuffed animals are gone too, and bins of school supplies have been replaced with individual boxes,…
PHOTOS: New additions in progress at McKay, South Salem high schools
Bridget West, principal of Hoover Elementary School, looks out to a school field on Feb. 5 from a new classroom built as part of a construction project to expand the school. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Twenty-five local schools will be renovated in 2021 as the Salem-Keizer…
Salem-Keizer on schedule for massive construction push with 25 schools set for renovations this year
Ongoing construction at McKay High School on Wednesday, Feb. 10. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Twenty-five local schools will be renovated in 2021 as the Salem-Keizer School District enters the busiest year of its years-long construction blitz – one of the largest such efforts in Oregon history.…
PHOTOS: Classes go outside as high school construction students build Salem home
Students in the CTEC residential construction program work together to lift and place a wall on Wednesday, Feb. 10. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Salem high school students this week raised interior walls for the home they’re building as a final project in a residential construction program.…
The pandemic closed high schools, but these Salem students still get to do their final project: build a house.
Curtis Fisher, a CTEC construction instructor, works with senior Caleb Susee while building a wall as part of the CTEC residential construction program on Wednesday, Feb. 10. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) When Salem high schools closed abruptly last March, Reed Hamilton, 18, worried about finishing his…