About 1,200 teens from schools across the mid-Willamette Valley gathered Saturday for the SnoBall dance, held annually since 1953.

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About 1,200 teens from schools across the mid-Willamette Valley gathered Saturday for the SnoBall dance, held annually since 1953.

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Danielle Bethell, a Salem-Keizer School Board director, took to Facebook on Nov. 23 to ask followers for any "middle school/high school homeschool pods in Keizer area." She said the district's "the lack of real education and safety being provided in our schools today," has led her and her family to look at other options for education.

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Teens at ILEAD Youth Leadership Summit will attend virtual workshops focusing on developing confidence, determination, and healthy life balance, even in the face of adversity as young adults. The Summit is set for Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021.

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Oregon families with kids eligible for free school lunch should have received a card in the mail from the state to cover the cost of meals lost due to school closures last year.

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Stephanie Madison has raised animals and crops since childhood and runs a small farmstand in west Salem. Her classroom at Myers Elementary School is teeming with life, from a bearded dragon to seedlings her students are growing. It's all part of her effort to bring hands-on agriculture lessons to them.

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The report found that Oregon lost more than 50% of its female school superintendents last year. Hiring bias and retention remain major issues.

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Salem-Keizer School District officials will meet after Thanksgiving to review the new guidelines and hash out details.

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Salem-Keizer School District administrators are stationing more security workers in local schools in response to an uptick in fights involving students and two recent incidents where guns were reported on campus.

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The new candidates had all applied for a new emergency substitute teaching license designed to help alleviate staffing shortages in schools across the state. The license, created through the Teachers Standards and Practices Commission in late September, does not require applicants to hold a Bachelor’s degree, or have any classroom experience.

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Danielle Bethell, a Salem-Keizer school board director, took to Facebook on Nov. 23 to ask followers for any "middle school/high school homeschool pods in Keizer area." She said the district's "the lack of real education and safety being provided in our schools today," has led her and her family to look at other options for education.

District leadership presented at a Nov. 16 school board meeting that suspensions in the first two months had decreased by 55% for an average of only 25 suspensions per day. In the 10 school days following the report, suspensions spiked to 50 per day. In the past, multiple school board directors have called for the district to release discipline data monthly instead of only twice a year.

In recent weeks, reports of school violence have spread across social media and into the Salem-Keizer Public Schools governing board room. 

Chef Laura Hofer is teaching her South Salem High School students not just knife lessons but life lessons this Thanksgiving using green beans, hominy and squash.

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Steve Nelson shares the important of the "grow your own" program and how it helps with retention.

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Test-to-stay allows unvaccinated students to stay in school after a potential coronavirus exposure as long as they are tested twice during a seven-day period.

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The shorthanded McNary girls' basketball team kept the score within single-digits for most of the contest, but couldn't contain Central Catholic's Gretta Baker down the stretch.

McNary returns the vast majority of their team for the 2021-22 season.

Although the swim team has about 30 less athletes in the program, McNary head coach Casey Lewin thinks having a smaller crew will help his kids develop faster in the 2021-22 campaign.

Coming off of one of their most successful seasons in recent memory, the McNary girls' basketball program heads into the 2021-22 campaign with a lot of hope, despite having a fair amount of roster turnover.

After losing only three seniors and filling a roster with more than 60 athletes, the McNary wrestling program has a ton of depth heading into the 2021-22 season.