Education
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Deschutes River High School Opens Up to Realms, Bend Tech Students

Technical and college preparatory coursework will be offered.
Avatar photoBy Jesse Coronado

As Bend Tech Academy and Realms High School discontinue their education programs, Deschutes River High School opens up to students coming for the next school year. The school will be located on North East 5th Street, on Bend Tech Academy’s former campus. Deschutes River High School, will be a choice school accepting students in the Bend-La […]

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Listen and Learn

Board members at Bend La-Pine Schools to meet with community members after hearing dissenting voices at its first meeting
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

After a return to in-person meetings, school board directors from Bend-La Pine Schools will host listening sessions to meet with the community members in a less formal setting than a typical board meeting, where public comment must be directly related to an agenda item. The first will take place on Thursday, July 29 from 5:30-7:30 […]

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A Rehabilitative Dude Ranch

J Bar J, offering a path away from crime for youth in Central Oregon for over 50 years, is now nationally accredited
Avatar photo by Jack Harvel

In 1968, Deschutes County was seeking a different solution for troubled youth who had committed a crime, besides jail. Rather than strictly punitive measures the county opted to fund J Bar J Ranch, which sought to not only house the teenagers but to teach them skills to succeed as an adult. The ranch takes its […]

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It Takes a Village

Tutors, pod networks and community organizations mobilize to fill child care and educational gaps during pandemic
Hanna Merzbach

As families adjust to a new school year in online education, Central Oregon tutoring businesses, pod networks and child care programs are mobilizing to fill gaps in education and child care.

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Guest Commentary: Communities & School Boards Should Determine When Schools Open

A letter from Culver’s superintendent to state leaders
Stefanie Garber

Editor’s note: This week, Culver School District Superintendent Stefanie Garber sent this letter to state officials, in response to Gov. Kate Brown’s announcement that until the state has a statewide positive coronavirus testing rate at or below 5% for three weeks in a row, the state’s students would not be allowed take part in in-person […]

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Small Grants Aim to Do Big Things

Deschutes Cultural Coalition’s awards spur cultural education
Teafly Peterson

Sometimes it only takes a little bit to inspire and create something bigger. The small grants awarded by the Deschutes Cultural Coalition may not exceed $3,000, but the organizations receiving the money have big ideas for it, making for some interesting upcoming events and creative opportunities. One of the goals for the grant money is […]

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Wasted in Bend: Sustainable Schools

Green schools reduce waste and improve energy use
Suzanne Johnson

Every parent of school-age kids has a similar shopping list this month: Pencils, glue sticks, highlighters, notebooks, dry-erase markers, crayons, sharpies and erasable pens… and don’t forget the earbuds and iPad stylus. Most items are not recyclable, or biodegrable, and represent just a fraction of the resources that go into educating kids. Schools create a […]

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Helping Wildlife Get By

Think Wild prepares to start taking in creatures at its rehab facility
Jim Anderson

On a Saturday and Sunday afternoon in July, the brand-new wildlife rehabilitation facility, Think Wild, east of Bend, created a traffic jam with its open house. A lot of people from Bend, Tumalo, LaPine, Sisters and Redmond came out to check out what Think Wild was all about. So, here’s the skinny. The facility once […]

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