The 2019 Salem-Keizer School Board (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) A normally routine task for the Salem-Keizer School Board – the election of a chair and vice chair for the coming year – will take place Wednesday, July 1 with a heightened level of public interest as at least two director vie[Read More…]

Marty Heyen, left, and Jesse Lippold, right, take new seats during a Salem-Keizer School Board meeting after being unanimously elected chair and vice chair for the 2019-20 school year next to Superintendent Christy Perry, center. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Marty Heyen was braced for a long school board meeting as community[Read More…]

The 2019-20 Salem-Keizer School Board (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer school board members will vote on a $60 million transportation spending package and several property transactions at a meeting Tuesday night. District leaders want to buy 195 new school buses and build a new transportation facility on Gaffin Road in south[Read More…]

The 2019-20 Salem-Keizer School Board (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer school board members and the public will get a first look Tuesday night at priorities for spending millions in new state money to close educational gaps in the district. Community volunteers Adriana Miranda, executive director of Causa, and Reginald Richardson, vice[Read More…]

The 2019-20 Salem-Keizer School Board (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer school board members will tackle school lunch, student behavior and more in a work session on Tuesday, Jan. 28. The board will begin with a presentation on the district’s meal program. The presentation was prompted in part by Englewood Elementary student[Read More…]

Salem-Keizer superintendent Christy Perry passes out portraits from Hallman Elementary School students at a Jan. 14, 2020 school board meeting (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Salem-Keizer school board members got a framed surprise at an otherwise uneventful Tuesday night meeting. To celebrate Oregon’s School Board Recognition Month, students at Hallman and Myers[Read More…]

Dean Wright, left, a Judson Middle School social studies teacher, and Pete Teller, a Leslie Middle School counselor, talk to school board director Kathy Goss at a Dec. 17, 2019 work session on equity (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Dean Wright sat in a chair against the wall of the Salem-Keizer School[Read More…]

The Salem-Keizer School Board will have two fresh faces after challenger Danielle Bethell unseated longtime board member Chuck Lee in Tuesday’s election. Incumbent Marty Heyen kept her seat against challenger Raul Marquez, a recent McKay High School graduate. Psychiatrist Satya Chandragiri won the race for an open seat in zone[Read More…]

School board candidates David Salinas (top left), Satya Chandragiri, Raul Marquez, Marty Heyen, Danielle Bethell and Chuck Lee. Salem-Keizer voters will pick three school board directors tonight in a race that’s been significantly more expensive than prior elections. The six candidates running to represent Keizer, northeast Salem and south Salem[Read More…]

The Salem-Keizer school board and budget committee will review Superintendent Christy Perry’s proposed budget for 2019-20 and hear public input at a Tuesday meeting. The $1.19 billion budget maintains current district services while shifting some staff around to accommodate a projected enrollment increase in middle school and decrease in elementary[Read More…]