Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Page A-5
Changes at the top for two Valley schools
By
Judy Hoyle
IVN Contributing Writer
Two Illinois Valley school principals
will move on to new challenges this year.
Lorna Byrne Middle School Principal Rachael
George will be moving with her husband to the
Portland area and Illinois Valley High School
Principal Casey Alderson has accepted a posi-
tion with Three Rivers School District admin-
istration.
In an email response to the Illinois Valley
News, Alderson wrote, “I have taken a posi-
tion as Director of Secondary Curriculum and
Alternative Education for Three Rivers. I am
excited about the new role and continuing our
work at the high school level, but it is bitter-
sweet leaving Illinois Valley High School. It is
a wonderful school that is filled with tremen-
dous staff and students. I have been blessed to
be there for four years and build relationships
with the community that will help our schools
continue to move in the right direction. There
is no school around that truly cares for its kids
more than I.V. High School. It is a special
place!”
Three Rivers School District board mem-
ber Kate Dwyer said she’s happy for Alderson.
“He’ll make an excellent director and I
know he’ll be missed at Illinois Valley High
School,” Dwyer said.
Jamie Ongman, whose previous position
was as the assistant principal at Hidden Val-
ley High School, has been selected to replace
Alderson at IVHS.
Rachael George has experienced a whirl-
wind of accomplishment and change over the
past two years. She completed her Doctor of
Education in Educational Leadership last sum-
mer and also married John George. They met
two years earlier when she interviewed for the
position as principal of LBMS and he was on
the district’s search committee.
George had previously earned a Master of
Arts in Teaching, Master of Science in Math-
ematics, a Special Education Endorsement
and an Administrative License. In her time at
LBMS, the school earned the Oregon Depart-
ment of Education’s “Outstanding School”
rating in 2012 and a Level 5 “Model School”
rating in 2013, making it one of only five high
achieving Model middle schools in Oregon.
George will now work for the Oregon
Trail School District as principal of Sandy
Grade School. Regarding her move, George
stated, “I will miss the families, students, and
staff at Lorna Bryne.”
George worked through the end of July
to help the school make the transition to new
principal Scott Polen as smooth as possible.
Polen previously worked as the Crook County
High School athletic director and also taught at
the Bend area school.
In anticipation of her new position,
George said, “In reflecting on how I could
have the most impact as an educator, I wanted
to focus on the earlier grades and help create a
passion for learning that will stay with students
throughout their education.”
The George’s move was precipitated by
John George being named Oregon Middle
School Principal of the Year by the Oregon
Association of Secondary School Administra-
tors and the Confederation of School Admin-
istrators. He was honored for his work moving
Fleming Middle School from “Persistently
Dangerous” to “Outstanding” and he also
served as principal of the Merlin Alternative
School at the same time.
Regarding the award, Three Rivers
School District Interim Superintendent Patricia
Adams stated, “This recognition is a tribute to
John’s leadership and the great staff and stu-
dents at Fleming Middle School.” Class sizes
at Fleming average in the mid-thirties, with 28
percent of students living with extended fam-
ily rather than a biological parent, 16 percent
of students are in foster care and the student
homeless population hovers at 14 percent.
After receiving the award in April, he
was contacted by three school districts with
job offers and accepted a principal position at
Dexter McCarty Middle School in the Gresh-
am-Barlow School District. The advantage
for the couple includes the opportunity to live
near John’s two adult sons in the Portland area
and having their jobs located only ten miles
apart, rather than at opposite ends of Josephine
County.
John also acknowledged that school
district administrators are being impacted by
the current turmoil among the school board
and those problems had a significant impact on
their decision to leave the area to seek employ-
ment elsewhere.
Regarding the George’s decision, Kate
Dwyer stated, “Rachael and John are such
superstars that of course the rest of the state
wanted them elsewhere. I’m concerned that
losing that caliber of talent is part of the fallout
we’re only beginning to see from board-level
dysfunction.”
Oregon bans medical pot for day-care providers
Jonathan J. Cooper
Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Home-
based day care centers are no places
for medical pot, Oregon has decided.
That decision on Wednesday
by a state board was prompted by
revelations that the owners of at least
five home-based day care centers
had medical marijuana cards and
were allowed to use the drug on the
premises.
One center was already shut
down for unrelated potential rule
violations, but the owners of four
others will have to choose between
their child-care businesses or their
marijuana cards.
The state had long viewed
medical marijuana as a private health
manner and did not disclose the
Advocates of the medicinal-pot an advocate for medical marijuana
presence of marijuana to parents, but
officials changed course after media program objected to Wednesday’s patients. “You don’t make these kinds
move, saying child care providers of requirements for people who are
reports highlighted the issue.
using methadone.”
Democratic Gov.
The rule takes effect
John Kitzhaber has
“You don’t make these kind of requirements immediately and lasts
also taken heat from
six months. The Early
his Republican rival,
for people that are using Vicodin,”
Learning Council will
state
Rep.
Dennis
consider a permanent
Richardson.
“There’s a question . “You don’t make these kinds of requirements rule in January, after
voters decide whether
about whether or not
for people who are using methadone.”
to legalize marijuana for
somebody who’s under
recreational use.
the influence of cannabis
The rule allows
can really provide that
Anthony Taylor,
others who live in
quality early learning
Advocate for medical marijuana patients
the home — but
experience,” said Pam
aren’t licensed child-
Curtis, chair of the
Early Learning Council, which was aren’t prohibited from using care providers — to hold medical
marijuana cards, but the drug can’t
appointed by Kitzhaber to oversee medications, including narcotics.
early childhood education. “What
“You don’t make these kind ever be stored in the home. It also
the council said today was, ‘We don’t of requirements for people that are bans use of smokeless tobacco and
think so.’ “
using Vicodin,” said Anthony Taylor, electronic cigarettes on the premises
Kerby General Store
while children are present.
Applicants
for
child-care
licenses are not currently asked
whether they have medical marijuana
cards, so the state knows only about
those who volunteer the information,
state officials have said.
State
child-care
licensors
will not be able to check whether
child care providers have medical
marijuana cards because state law
restricts access to the Oregon Medical
Marijuana
Program
database,
said Cindy Hunt, a lawyer for the
Department of Education, which
oversees child care.
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Cooper at http://twitter.com/jjcooper
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