Tag: OREGON EDUCATION

Oregon’s state education director a quiet, collaborative force in the turbulence of pandemic

Colt Gill, director of the Oregon Department of Education stands in front of the department’s headquarters. He has led Oregon schools and the Education Department through one of the most difficult periods in its history. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Colt Gill gets up at 2:30 every morning, thinking about his duty[Read More…]

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After school programs out of reach for 200,000 Oregon kids

Art teacher Brenda Dobbins slides a ring made of a recycled seltzer can onto the finger of Leslie Villaseñor, a 6th grade student at Leslie Middle School, during art class at 2019 migrant summer school. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) More than 200,000 Oregon kids who want to enroll in an after[Read More…]