MARCH 3, 2017, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A7
UPGRADE,
continued from Page A1
standard,” Wolfe said.
A subcommittee working on the question
of whether to build a new high school or in-
crease capacity at existing schools jettisoned
the new high school idea.
“Even if you went out for a new high school,
there are still core infrastructure needs (at other
schools) that need to be addressed,” said Mark
Shipman, a member of the task force.
Even though building a new school would
be cheaper on paper, there would still be about
$100 million in additional infrastructure work
at other schools needs to be completed making
it a more costly option in the end, Wolfe said.
Two members of the task force expressed
reservations about the fi nal recommendation
of expanding capacity. Task force member
Lloyd Chapman and Steve Chambers said is-
sues of equity are a major concern at larger
schools.
“Many of the studies I looked at talked
about incremental differences when you in-
crease populations. At lower socioeconomic
levels, the academic results go down,” Cham-
bers said.
Chapman had reservations about moving
forward on a plan without more detailed anal-
ysis of how expansion would be accomplished
at each school.
“I want to make sure we know how we
would do things at North and South, and what
do we do if we can’t (expand),” Chapman said.
North Salem and South Salem high schools
are two of the most landlocked campuses in
the district.
(Keizertimes will have a more in-depth look
at the way rising enrollment numbers are af-
fecting Keizer schools in the March 10 issue.)
and McNary. Both schools have grown well
beyond their buildings’ capacity, even with
portable classroom units stationed at each site.
McKay is at 135 percent of its capacity without
portables, McNary is at 119 percent without
portables.
Those fi gures drop precipitously with the
use of portable classrooms, but portables do
not address crowding in communal spaces like
cafeterias, libraries, gyms and auditoriums.
To address the issue for the next decade, the
task force is recommending increasing the ca-
pacity of fi ve district high schools from 2,000
students to 2,200 students. West Salem High
School would be the only high school exempt
from the increase. That’s in addition to im-
provements needed at a throng of elementary
and middle schools (feeders schools) whose
populations pool at the high school level.
During the fi nal task force meeting, discus-
sions were wide-ranging and included top-
ics like seismic upgrades, the need for further
Americans with Disabilities Act compliance,
and addressing specifi c classroom needs such
as science labs and career technical education.
If voters approve a general obligation bond,
teams would be assembled at each targeted
school to plan the way forward.
On the topic of seismic upgrades Wolfe said
the district is concerned with minimizing the
loss of life over saving the buildings for reuse.
“We’re not an organization like a hospital
that needs to keep operating in an emergency.
(Schools) aren’t built to the highest seismic
DOG,
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Children’s Hospital in Port-
land for a battery of tests in
the following days.
Type 1 diabetes is the result
of the body not producing
enough insulin. It’s an autoim-
mune condition in which the
immune system mistakenly at-
tacks cells in the pancreas that
produce insulin. Insulin con-
trols the amount of glucose/
sugar in the blood stream.
Diagnosis means constantly
checking blood sugar levels
and injections of insulin to
modulate one’s glucose levels.
The diagnosis put Lauren’s
family into a tailspin for a few
months.
“All we did was eat out be-
cause we could look at a web-
site and fi nd out how many
(blood glucose) points every-
thing was worth. A McDon-
ald’s hamburger is the same
every time and everywhere. It
was a known quantity,” Tania
said.
As her parents gained con-
fi dence in their ability to mea-
sure and monitor Lauren’s in-
take, the family started eating
at home more and everyone
was healthier for it.
A diabetic alert dog would
About a year after her di-
agnosis, and with some ex- change her quality of life for
perimentation, Lauren got a the better still. The dogs are
glucose pump that can dose trained to sense drops and
her regularly and monitor spikes in their owners’ blood
her blood sugar levels which sugar levels and can alert them
means fewer needle injections. to the coming problem, get
Lauren herself has also be- help, or even retrieve a juice
box for them
come a good
to drink.
monitor
of
While
a
her needs.
diabetic alert
“If my lev-
dog will cer-
els are too
tainly
help
high, I get
her person-
a headache.
ally, Lauren is
When they
already think-
are too low,
ing
about
I get shaky,”
how she can
Lauren said.
Saluting the people that make
use the op-
The pump
us proud of our community
portunity to
also allows her
help others.
to partake of
capitolauto.com
She is cur-
the things that
rently work-
were
once
ing with the
denied
her,
like cake at a friend’s birthday California Pizza location at
Bridgeport Village in Portland
party.
While Lauren is taking on a for a year’s worth of fundrais-
new role as an ambassador, her ing activities.
“We are looking for some-
precocious and outgoing per-
sonality serves her well. When one with a diabetic alert dog
she has friends over to visit to bring to Bridgeport, and
or spend the night, she turns I want to be able to do that
it into an educational experi- for other people with my dog
when I get it,” Lauren said.
ence.
To contribute to Lauren’s
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to get tested when I do,” Lau- diabetes alert dog campaign,
visit http://bit.ly/2mCwYag.
ren said.
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