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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
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Keizer Art Association
Keizer Community Library
to get the job done right.
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Stories
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Photos
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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. Kath-
leen Jensen and Lisa Perkins
were hired as temporary full-
time learning resources center
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teachers at Whiteaker Middle
School. 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.