BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Central Oregon Community College Board of Directors announced Tuesday three finalists for the role of college president following a nationwide search and thorough review by the presidential search advisory committee. All three candidates will visit COCC campuses in January 2025 to meet with faculty, staff, students, community members and the
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Here’s NewsChannel 21’s current list of school closures and delays for Friday, December 13th: -Jefferson County School District 509J: Closed “Due to snow and ice creating slick and unsafe road conditions across our district, we are canceling school today,” the school district said. “This closure includes all after-school programs, activities, and athletics.”
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Central Oregon Community College’s Small Business Development Center is one of only eight educational sites in the country to be a designated partner for Syracuse University’s new Startup Training Resources to Inspire Veteran Entrepreneurship program, or STRIVE, that starts up next month.
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Crook County School District announced Thursday that school board member Jessica Brumble has resigned, as she has been appointed the district’s new transportation Manager and will start her new position on Monday, Dec. 30. Brumble, who has served on the school board since July 2023, will now oversee the district’s
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A snowboard company donated a year ago to Oregon State University–Cascades by its founders has brought its first boards to market under its new student leadership.
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(Update: Adding video,comments from staff, cadets) REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A historic moment in Redmond Wednesday. A quarter-century after the Oregon National Guard established the Oregon Youth Challenge Program in Bend, it celebrated the graduation of its largest class yet, totaling 165 cadets. The ceremony took place at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds. It was a special
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SEATTLE (KTVZ) — the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has been selected to receive $6.54 million in funding to assist in the purchase of 26 zero-emission, all-electric school buses through a first-ever Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grant Program. “Thanks to President Biden, we are accelerating American leadership in
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WATCH LIVE: House Interim Committee on Education – see agenda items in schedule below. SALEM. Ore. (KTVZ) – Legislators have returned to Salem Tuesday through Thursday, Dec. 10-12 to engage in the final series of interim legislative committee hearings prior to the 2025 legislative session. Hearings will focus on a variety of issues and top
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Teegan Wright, a fifth-grade student at Rosland Elementary School in La Pine, will serve in the cabinet for the 2025 Oregon Kid Governor. He and other cabinet members and the new Oregon Kid Governor, Rosie from Riverdale Grade School in Portland, will be sworn in at the state Capitol in January.
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A new study from ECONorthwest shows funding for Oregon’s charter schools has dropped, compared to public schools.
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(update: adding videos, comments from cast and Summit principal) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Summit High School Theatre Company is bringing all the iconic characters of Mean Girls to the stage. The production, set to debut next month, will include special staff appearances, featuring none other than Principal Donna Servignat. “It’s a very small cameo,”
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Sustainable rates of groundwater withdrawal in Oregon’s Harney Basin were surpassed 20 years prior to the time declining groundwater levels were generally recognized, a new analysis found. That lag in realizing the impact of groundwater use is just one insight from a new study linking farm economics and groundwater hydrology in the
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ST. HELENS, Ore. (KGW/KTVZ) — St. Helens High School Principal Dr. Katy Wagner turned herself in to Columbia County Sheriff’s Office deputies Wednesday morning, St. Helens police said, a day after she was indicted on criminal charges and a warrant was issued, KGW reported. She has been charged with two counts of criminal mistreatment and
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The 2023-24 edition of the Oregon Statewide Report Card is now available on the Oregon Department of Education website. This annual look at Oregon’s kindergarten through grade 12 education system compiles key data on students, teachers and schools in one place for ease of access and transparency. “Learning from this report helps
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Following steep declines in school attendance in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic, Oregon students are slowly beginning to show up more regularly to class, and a growing number of ninth-graders are on track to graduate on time.
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La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Bend-La Pine Schools has presented its Excellence in Education Award to Tiffany Schreiber, an Inclusion Educational Assistant at La Pine Middle School. As a classified employee, Schreiber is the district’s Support Staff Member of the Year. Superintendent Steven Cook, Deputy Superintendent Lisa Birk and other district administrators, along with School Board
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -The Higher Education Coordinating Commission encourages all Oregonians pursuing postsecondary education in 2025-26 to apply for grants and scholarships through the state website OregonStudentAid.gov. This month, the HECC Office of Student Access and Completion officially opened the OSAC Scholarship Application for the next academic year. The State of Oregon has made accessing scholarships easy for Oregon
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EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) — SELCO Community Credit Union has awarded nearly $82,000 to 44 educators across Oregon, including eight programs from Central Oregon, as part of SELCO’s vastly expanded Creative Educator Grants program. Creative Educator Grants are designed for K-12 educators with creative classroom ideas who need more funding to get those projects off the
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This weekend, the Dry Canyon Arts Association held its semi-annual Art Show and Sale at the Redmond High School commons, including a raffle with a big goal: to jumpstart art education for every elementary school child in Redmond.
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REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Central Oregon school superintendents, fire and police chiefs, sheriffs, district attorneys and public and mental health leaders will convene on Wednesday at 8 a.m. at the High Desert Education Service District in Redmond to reaffirm their commitment to the Safe Schools Alliance (SSA). This annual event serves to bolster ongoing community
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