Nearly every school district and education service district in Oregon has applied for state dollars to offer hiring and retention bonuses ahead of the new school year.
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Oregon leaders need to stop disrupting education reforms, report finds
A middle school language arts class in Salem in 2018 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Oregon leaders need to press for more accountability while avoiding political “flavor of the month” funding choices so schooling for the state’s 540,000 students can improve, a new state report concludes. State auditors say the $4.6 billion[Read More…]
Despite more money than ever for summer school, teacher shortages limit possibilities
Tato Ferris, 13, works on a design during the Robotics Wiz Camp summer school program in Salem on Wednesday, July 14. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Oregon school districts may struggle to make use of millions of dollars set aside to expand summer school and help thousands of students catch up on[Read More…]
Legislators push for money to train Oregon teachers in the science of reading
Teacher Kalia Flocker holds books she bought for her classroom library at Lamb Elementary on Sept. 28, 2021 after a crowdfunding campaign. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Nearly 3,000 teachers in Oregon schools serving students with the highest needs could soon get paid to learn more about the science of reading. Rep.[Read More…]
Legislators considering steps to tackle Oregon’s shortage of teachers
Julie Cleve, a reading specialist at Hallman Elementary School, helps students learn about length and measurement. Oregon legislators are considering several proposals to bring more teachers to the state (Salem Reporter/FILE) A proposal to make it easier and more lucrative to teach in Oregon is being heard by the public[Read More…]
New study highlights why so many of Oregon’s superintendents of color are leaving
Guadalupe Guerrero, left, is superintendent of Portland Public Schools, and one of just nine school superintendents of color in the state. (Portland Bureau of Transportation/Flickr) Despite an increasingly diverse student population, leaders in Oregon’s school districts remain overwhelmingly white. A new study set out to understand the challenges of school superintendents of[Read More…]
Alsea superintendent, board will defy mask mandate, forgo school funding
Used masks fill a garbage can (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Despite losing some federal relief money, Alsea School District leaders say they will disregard Covid mandates and allow students and staff to forgo masks when they return to school buildings on Monday, Jan. 31. Superintendent Marc Thielman, who is also a[Read More…]
Legislators consider shielding school superintendents from rash school board actions
Salem-Keizer Superintendent Christy Perry, center, at a 2019 school board meeting. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Leaders from the Coalition of Oregon School Administrators and the Oregon School Boards Association are asking legislators to protect superintendents from some firings and require greater oversight and training for those serving on school boards. The[Read More…]
Oregon schools face few limits on how to use millions in unexpected federal money
Lockers at McKay High School on Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. Schools in Oregon have access to more than a billion in pandemic aid, yet less than 8% of it has been awarded (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) In some Oregon school districts, turf fields and lawn mowers were necessities to overcome the[Read More…]
Despite closing decades-long funding gaps, Oregon schools say they need more money
Maggie Rivera, community school outreach coordinator, greets students for the first day back to school at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) State school and education leaders said Tuesday that despite new data showing that decades of school funding gaps in the state have been nearly closed,[Read More…]