Power outage closes Redmond’s Obsidian MS
Obsidian Middle School in Redmond was closed Wednesday due to a power outage but is expected to reopen Thursday, officials said.
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Crook County schools to use new state funds to add teachers
– The Crook County School District has reports on how its student body has grown and changed in this school year, and how it plans to use new state funding to add teachers and other needed staff.
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Bill would help part-time professors with health care
Part-time college professors are struggling to afford health care. A bill in the Oregon Legislature would change that.
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Redmond School District seeks superintendent finalist community panelists
The Redmond School District Board of Directors invites members of the community to help in the final stages of choosing the district’s next superintendent by applying for the Community Stakeholder Panel.
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Concordia students stage walkout, sit-in over school’s closure
Students at Concordia University walked out of class Thursday morning, then staged a sit-in at the president’s office in protest of the Portland school’s closure.
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Bend’s new high school name choices: Woodlands, Vista or Caldera
A Bend-La Pine Schools naming committee has recommended three options for the new high school under construction in southeast Bend: Woodlands, Vista or Caldera High School.
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Departing OSU president urges more focus on mental health, students’ needs
Nearing the end of his 17-year tenure, OSU President Ed Ray urges state, federal government and Oregonians to address students’ mental health, reducing tuition burden.
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Portland’s Concordia University to close after 115 years
After 115 years of operation, Concordia University in northeast Portland will close its doors at the end of the 2020 spring term, according to Interim President Tom Ries.
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Every Day Matters: Oregon effort tackles school absenteeism
Students who regularly attend school are more likely to succeed, so the state of Oregon is working to tackle chronic absenteeism in the school system that affects about one in five students across the state.
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Scholastic awards celebrate Bend-La Pine student artists
Student artists in Bend-La Pine Schools earned hundreds of awards for their artwork – from photography to drawing to sculpture — through the Central Oregon Scholastic Art Awards.
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Crook County HS students race to build hydrogen-fueled car
The future is now. Seven students in the Career in Technical Education – or CTE – program at Crook County High School are building a remote-control car fueled by hydrogen.
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Bend-La Pine Schools panel proposes middle, high school attendance areas
The Bend-La Pine Schools’ Attendance Area Review Committee on Wednesday recommended proposed new middle and high school attendance areas to Superintendent Shay Mikalson, who is slated to make a final decision by March 10.
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Bend bus driver returns ‘rowdy’ students to school, some parents angry
A letter was sent home to parents of students at Pine Ridge Elementary School about a school bus incident Monday as some voiced their frustrations about what took place.
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Redmond schools making big changes to cut K-5 class sizes
The Redmond School District has announced major school and boundary changes to take effect in the 2020-2021 school year, in preparation for class size reductions with the added state funding from the new Student Success Act.
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OSU researchers zeroing in on ‘electronic nose’
Research at Oregon State University has pushed science closer to developing an “electronic nose” for monitoring air quality, detecting safety threats and diagnosing diseases by measuring gases in a patient’s breath.
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OSU-Cascades to launch bachelor’s degree in outdoor products
Oregon State University-Cascades will offer a new bachelor’s degree in outdoor products beginning this fall that will be one of only a few such university programs in the nation, school officials said Monday.
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OSU-Cascades to launch first doctoral degree in 2021
Oregon State University-Cascades in Bend announced Thursday the school will launch its first doctoral program, a doctor of physical therapy, in the fall of 2021.
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Oregon graduation rate rises to record 80 percent
The statewide graduation rate for the class of 2018-19 was 80 percent, up 1.3 percentage points over the previous year and the highest graduation rate ever recorded in Oregon, according to data released Thursday by the Oregon Department of Education.
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‘Jan Term’ allows RPA ceramics students to go deep
Redmond Proficiency Academy’s ceramics instructor Ethan Stelzer is able to take his high school January class deeper into the art form, thanks to RPA’s intensive three-week course of study called Jan Term.
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OSU’s online Ecampus scores high nationally
For the third time in six years, Oregon State University is ranked as one of America’s five best providers of online education by U.S. News & World Report.
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