Tag SALEM SCHOOLS
Price of remodeling South Salem High School jumps; artifacts from old Leslie saved
Workers install seismic upgrades to the boys’ locker room at South Salem High School as part of a major expansion and remodeling of the school. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) The cost to demolish the former Leslie Junior High School and expand South Salem High School has…
School board delays budget to hear more about taking police officers out of Salem-Keizer schools
The Salem-Keizer School Board (Salem Reporter/file) The Salem-Keizer School Board Tuesday night postponed final action on the billion-dollar school budget to allow more consideration of a surprise proposal to remove police officers from local schools. The board’s decision reflects yet another government acknowledgement of growing…
Salem-Keizer’s unpaid school lunch debt has ballooned to $445,000 in just a few years
A school lunch served at Englewood Elementary School on May 20, 2019. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer families owe the school district nearly half a million dollars for unpaid school breakfasts and lunches, most of it accumulated since a 2017 state law change required districts to…
Salem school one of most rapidly improving in Oregon, driving up scores with innovation, focus
Scott Stenlund, Washington Elementary School principal (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Washington Elementary School has countered disappointing student test performance across Salem schools, nearly tripling in the past two years the percentage of students on track in math with similar gains in reading. Under principal Scott Stenlund,…
Salem-Keizer middle schoolers learn lifesaving skills in class
Dylin Jackson and Makai DeBarry practice CPR on a mannequin together. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) Two dozen eighth graders took turns doing compressions on inflatable torsos on a chilly Tuesday morning at Straub Middle School. “How do we make sure gam gam is okay?” a Salem…
At Hoover Elementary, fourth-grade students launch all-digital newspaper
Jared Vergara Santana writes down research questions for his newspaper article in the Hoover Elementary School library on Oct. 29, 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) A dozen fourth-grade students at Hoover Elementary School bent over papers, brainstorming questions they wanted to research for future news articles.…
School board members say they’re disappointed by Salem’s poor test results
School buses parked in the Salem-Keizer School District lot on Hawthorne Avenue (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Last month, new state data showed Salem-Keizer had once again failed to raise the percentage of students reading and doing math at grade level. Salem-Keizer wasn’t unique: nearly every large…
With unexpected millions flowing, Salem-Keizer school officials add more building projects
New additions under construction at McNary High School on Aug. 23, 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Seven local schools will get more hefty remodeling projects than planned as Salem-Keizer School District executives spend an unexpected infusion of $65 million. The money is flowing because investors have…
School board members try to pull together in face of major issues for Salem-Keizer schools
School board vice chair Jesse Lippold looks at documents during a meeting on May 7, 2019 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) On Tuesday afternoon, seven volunteer school board members will spend an afternoon outlining the future for more than 40,000 school students in Salem and Keizer. Other…