Category Archives: Dept. of Education (ODE)

To fight chronic absenteeism, an Oregon school district enlists the whole town

Personal connections — along with an unusual citywide campaign that has everyone from the small Clackamas County town’s mayor to local faith leaders and business owners pitching in — have helped the Gladstone School District greatly reduce the number of its kindergarten students who have missed at least three weeks of school this year. One […]
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Education officials should not weaken financial education requirement | Opinion

Oregon has finally caught up to the many other states that require high school students to pass a personal finance course as a graduation requirement with a landmark bill that passed the Legislature and was signed by Gov. Tina Kotek in 2023. Senate Bill 3 requires students to take lessons in personal finance and career […]
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State must not shortchange students on financial literacy education | Opinion

The state should require districts to provide a stand-alone financial literacy class that helps students learn how to create budgets, understand taxes and acquire other critical life financial skills, writes Audrey Bailey, community education director for Oregon State Credit Union. Simply sprinkling in lessons here and there into existing classes won’t give students the education […]
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Oregon insiders: Who’s who in and around state government

Scott Moore is on his way in and Jenn Baker is on her way out as chief of staff for new House Speaker Julie Fahey, D-Eugene. Baker is still chief of staff on an interim basis during the transition. And Moore, who was Fahey’s chief of staff in the House Majority Office, also is handling […]
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The Oregon Plan gets approval from the ODE

The Oregon Plan from the Oregon National Guard has been endorsed by the Oregon Department of Education. The plan gives high school students a paid opportunity to learn professional technical training while earning high school credit. The plan, which was first introduced in 1995, gives high school students credits toward graduation while they are being […]
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Proposed levy would help CTE program at Bend-La Pine Schools

A group of students stood around a propane tank in Caldera High School’s career and technical education maker space, a workshop full of tools and equipment that included welding booths and cutting machines. They were working on a project to test fuel efficiency. The maker space is large, fitting for an engineering program that includes […]
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Beef. It’s what’s for lunch (at Wallowa County schools)

For years, Miranda Micka has wanted to put more local food on the trays in Wallowa County school cafeterias. That’s why, last February, armed with a $100,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Education, she started a garden at Joseph Charter School; the idea is to have the school buy produce from the garden, with […]
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One quarter of Oregon’s 197 school districts will get summer school money from state

Most Oregon school districts and the hundreds of thousands of students that they serve, once again, will not benefit from any additional summer school funding from the state this year. The Oregon Department of Education recently released the list of 48 school districts and 24 charter schools that will have access to a portion of […]
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Concealed handgun license bans spread across Oregon school districts

Nearly 50% of public school students in Oregon now attend districts that have banned licensed handgun owners from bringing their weapons onto school property. Source: Concealed handgun license bans spread across Oregon school districts – oregonlive.com

High schoolers make up growing proportion of Oregon community college enrollment

At five of Oregon’s 17 community colleges, high schoolers dual-enrolled made up 20% or more of the total enrollment. The proportion of Oregon’s community college enrollment made up of high schoolers has grown in recent years, and many aren’t taking classes on a campus. Overall, community college enrollment has plummeted in the past decade, but […]
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