Hinojos Pressey The outcome of Salem-Keizer School Board races may not be decided until June when the election is certified. New board members are sworn in July. Contests in Zone 3 and 5 were so close that voters correcting ballots could still flip the outcome. Ashley Carson Cottingham was leading[Read More…]

McNary students show up for their first day of in-person school on April 13 (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings). After over a year of distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, McNary High School has been in their hybrid model — where students come on campus twice per week for in-person instruction —[Read More…]

Creativity and practicality were both considerations when Tom Cavanaugh picked A Midsummer Night’s Dream for students to end the year. “I was looking for something that we could let the kids put as much of their own creativity into. One of the awesome things about Shakespeare is that we have[Read More…]

Willamette Connections Academy recently announced the school’s first honor roll for grades K-12. The statewide tuition-free online public school is recognizing hundreds of students across Oregon for outstanding academic achievement during the first semester of the 2020-21 academic year.  Keizer students who were recognized include: Baylee Whetten, sixth grade; Dario[Read More…]

A protest outside the Salem-Keizer Public Schools (SKPS) district office stole the show at the school board meeting on Tuesday, May 11. The demonstration was organized by youth activist group, Latinos Unidos Siempre (LUS) — board meetings are closed to the public and don’t feature live testimony. Sandra Hernández-Lomelí, director[Read More…]

Due to the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic, Salem-Keizer Public Schools (SKPS) students have unfinished learning. The district will utilize current MTSS structures and systems to identify students and to match appropriate interventions to ensure every student receives the right instruction at the right time. Because ensuring student learning towards state standards[Read More…]

Registration for kindergarten for the fall of 2021 is now open and all children five years of age or older as of Sept. 10, 2021, are eligible. Registration requires proof of address, proof of age and immunization records. For more information and to apply, visit salemkeizer.org/kindergarten.

Free Grab-N-Go Meals will be available for students during Hybrid learning. Each student will be offered one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner per day. Breakfast and lunch will be offered on site. Dinner must be picked up at one of the Grab-N-Go meal sites. Students who are doing online[Read More…]

If you happened to check out a book from the Salem Public Library last March and – for some reason – still have it laying around, you’ll be able to turn it in next month for food instead of fees.  The library’s Food for Fines returns for its second year of[Read More…]

ZONE 1 May 2021 Salem-Keizer School Board candidates for zone 1, from top left: Osvaldo Avila, Richard Riggs, Ross Swartzendruber and Kari Zohner. Story here. ZONE 3 May 2021 Salem-Keizer School Board candidates for zone 3: Ashley Carson Cottingham, left, and Linda Farrington. Story here. ZONE 5 May 2021 Salem-Keizer[Read More…]