COVID caught schools off guard when it first swept across the country in 2020. A lack of available testing and digital teaching tools resulted in mass quarantines, confusion among parents and students and the enactment of COVID-safe practices like wearing masks, daily surface disinfections and social distancing. Bend-La Pine Schools and Redmond School District will […]
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New Billboards Honor Class of 2020
Five billboards celebrating Bend-La Pine seniors going up in Central Oregon
Since the class of 2020 won’t get a typical graduation ceremony because of closures due to COVID-19, Bend-La Pine Schools is honoring graduating high school seniors on five billboards around Central Oregon. Starting Monday, the billboards honoring the graduating classes of five of the district’s high schools will feature photos of each senior. “We wanted to […]
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New School Boundaries Released Today
Bend-La Pine Schools announces attendance areas for the fall of 2021 school year
Today the Bend-La Pine Schools’ Attendance Area Review Committee revealed its recommendations for where kids in different areas of Bend will attend middle and high school, once Bend’s new high school is operational. The committee was tasked with taking input from the community, who had three boundary options to choose from, and then make a […]
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Helping Wildlife Get By
Think Wild prepares to start taking in creatures at its rehab facility
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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March for Students
2,000 people gather in downtown Bend in support of fully funding schools
About 2,000 students, parents and teachers marched from Bend public schools and ended up at the Education Center on Wall Street Wednesday, during a rally to support funding for public education in Oregon. Similar rallies took place across the state. According to the Oregon Education Association, over 25,000 supporters gathered in Portland; Salem’s rally drew […]
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Letters to the Editor
Fear-Based legislation, HB3063 doesn’t uphold Oregon values! As it stands, Oregon will be losing over 900 teachers statewide (15 in Bend) and three school days in the current 2019-20 biennial state budget. HB3063 will impact roughly 31,000 students. That could mean an additional loss to school budgets of over $403,000,000. Under HB3063, our public charter, […]
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Scenes from the Youth Climate Strike
Students walked out of school, urging leaders to take more action to slow global warming
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TGIF— Arming Teachers!
Cartoonist Wm. Friday delivers his own personal brand of timely humor on arming teachers… right on time. TGIF, Central Oregon!
