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PAGE A6, KEIZERTIMES, DECEMBER 11, 2015 MHS leads district in Band holiday concert Dec. 16 college credit courses By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes College and career readiness was the subject of a work ses- sion the Salem-Keizer School Board held Tuesday following its regular monthly meeting. The fi rst of two sessions on readiness, it was a report from the administration on college- level courses available in the high schools. The second ses- sion is expected to follow the board’s Jan. 12 meeting. Kelly Carlisle, assistant su- perintendent, was the main presenter for the session, which outlined the program and showed the progress it was making. The vision is to have all stu- dents graduate and be prepared for successful lives. Charts shown on a screen presenta- tion started with one showing arrows pointing from the high school to the workforce, job skills training, the community college and the university. Also on the chart were pathways among all fi ve. “The ability to navigate pathways is what we must pre- pare our students to do,” Car- lisle said. A pie chart showed types of college-level courses taken in the high schools in 2014. College Credit Now, in which the district cooperates with Chemeketa Community Col- lege, provided 49 percent of the courses. Advance Place- ment/International Bacca- laureate, a program owned by College Board, provided 48 percent, and Willamette Promise, a joint effort of the Willamette Education Service District and Western Oregon University, provided 3 percent. McNary led the high schools in College Credit Now courses taken last year. South Salem led in AP/IB courses, and McKay and West Salem were the only schools offering Willamette Promise. Some of the charts involved ethnicities. One that showed numbers of 2014 Salem-Keiz- er graduates alongside num- bers of graduates enrolled in college the fi rst year after high school showed 1,269 white students, of whom 830 were in college. The numbers were 689 and 433 for Hispanic/ Latino students, 97 and 62 for multiracial, 71 and 60 for Asian, 26 and 15 for Ameri- can Indian and Native Alaskan, 22 and 13 for black/African American, and 34 and 18 for Pacifi c islanders. There were charts show- ing academic readiness of Or- egon public university fresh- men, community colleges not included, in 2013, as well as percentages of students who stayed in Oregon public uni- versities for their sophomore years in 2011, 2012 and 2013. They compared students from the Salem-Keizer district with students in the state as a whole, and consistently the fi gures for the state as a whole were slightly higher. Carlisle said, “We can only hypothesize the reasons why we are slightly be- hind the state average.” The public is invited to the Keizer Community Band’s second annual holiday con- cert on Wednesday, Dec. 16. The free concert takes place from 7 to 8 p.m. at Keiz- er Civic Center, 930 Chema- wa Road NE. The 55-member band is made up of volunteer musi- cians from Keizer, Salem and the surrounding communities. police scanner SATURDAY, NOV. 28 • 8:30 p.m. - Shoplifting on 4300 block River Road N. SUNDAY, NOV. 29 • 2 p.m. - Shoplifting on 6300 block Ulali Drive NE. • 7:05 p.m. - Telephone harass- ment on 3400 block Cherry Ave. NE. • 8:55 p.m. - Arrest for hit and run accident on 4800 block Riv- er Road N. • 9:26 p.m. - Arrest for criminal mischief, crime damage, escape, assaulting police offi cer, unlawful possession of heroin, kidnapping, menacing threats, bench warrant, resisting arrest and assault on 6400 block Keizer Station Blvd. NE. • 9:41 p.m. - Arrest for unlawful possession of methamphetamine on 1800 block Chelan Street NE. • 10:30 p.m. - Stolen vehicle on 5900 block Trail Ave. NE. MONDAY, NOV. 30 • 10:26 a.m. - Theft by deception on 400 block Chemawa Road N. • 1:15 p.m. - Theft from vehicle on 5900 block Ulali Drive NE. • 4:07 p.m. - Traffi c accident on Lockhaven Drive N. and River Road N. TUESDAY, DEC. 1 • 12:30 a.m. - Physical harass- ment on 3700 block Brooks Ave. NE. • 9:50 a.m. - Theft from a build- ing on 500 block Chemawa Road N. • 1:34 p.m. - Identity theft on 1900 block Modoc Drive NE. • 1:34 p.m. - Theft on 3200 block Mayfi eld Place N. • 4:33 p.m. - Theft on 6300 $14 million grant targets impoverished students By HERB SWETT For the Keizertimes Grants totaling more than $14 million were accepted by the Salem-Keizer School Board on Tuesday. The largest, itself more than $14 million, was one of three from the Oregon De- partment of Education. It is a $14,288,417 Title 1A instruc- tional services grant that sup- plements district resources to ensure that students in schools with high percentages of pov- erty meet challenging state academic standards. Also from ODE were two focus grants, $37,042 for Swe- gle Elementary School and $33,881 for Grant School. Both will support teacher im- provement, supplemental in- struction and family engage- ment activities. Early Learning Hub, Inc., provided $87,000 to increase children’s readiness for kin- dergarten, strengthen con- nections between early learn- ing and K-12, and expand or launch a model for such connections that has the po- tential to be copied elsewhere. Another Early Learning Grant provides $3,500 for parenting education curriculum. The remaining grant, in the amount of $2,800, is from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Con- tribution Fund and will sup- port the cost of a mathemat- ics tutor for Native American students. In other business, the board voted for Kaye Jones of the Silver Falls School District as the unopposed candidate for Position 12 on the Oregon School Boards Association board of directors and for one of its own members, Chris Brantley, as the unopposed Christmas at Keizer Heritage Center Keizer Art Association Keizer Community Library to get the job done right. 503.393.2875 CCB#155626 Santa Claus Carols Art making Stories Refreshments Photos December 17 5:30-7:30 p.m. 980 Chemawa Road N.E. • 503-393-9660 • keizerheritage.org B OUCHER J EWELERS Within these doors the candidate for Position 11 on the OSBA legislative policy committee. Personnel actions the board approved involved four em- ployees in the McNary High School attendance area. 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The board accepted the resignations of Miguel Campos as an orchestra teach- er at Whiteaker and Virginia Hopkins as a second-grade English for speakers of other languages teacher at Keizer Elementary School. block Ulali Drive NE. • 5:15 p.m. - Accident on 4200 block River Road N. • 5:35 p.m. - Accident on Cherry Ave. NE. and Plymouth Drive NE. • 6 p.m. - Theft on 900 block Sa- grada Circle N. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2 • 11:57 a.m. - Shoplifting on 5000 block River Road N. • 1:13 p.m. - Theft from building on 5600 block Windsor Island Road N. • 5:14 p.m. - Traffi c accident on 4900 block River Road N. THURSDAY, DEC. 3 • 12:48 a.m. - Arrest for warrant on River Road N. and Garland Way N. • 9:43 a.m. - Accident on Beebe Street NE. and Arnold Street NE. • 4:17 p.m. - Theft on 1300 Northern Heights Loop NE. • 8:10 p.m. - Traffi c accident at Lockhaven Drive NE. and River Road N. • 8:54 p.m. - Arrest for war- rant and unlawful possession of methamphetamine on 100 block Chemawa Road N. • 9:57 p.m. - Arrest for probation violation warrant on 6900 block 8th Court NE.