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Summer camps booked solid, build community
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Salem-Keizer Public Schools are host-
ing nearly 200 camp sessions this sum-
mer, and it still wasn’t enough to meet the
interest of students and families.
“I am still getting calls every day to
see if we can squeeze more kids in, but
we are full,” said Nichole Spearman-
Eskelson, the district’s coordinator of
summer programming. Each of the var-
ious camps being off ered topped out at
25-30 students.
After a year of what can, generously, be
described as “abnormal,” the camps are
providing opportunities to reconnect with
classrooms, teachers and friends through-
out the district.
The programs are being funded,
in large part, through grants from the
Oregon Department of Education. The
Oregon Legislature allotted more than
$200 million in state and federal fund-
ing to off er enrichment programs for K-8
students. For high school students, only
credit-recovery programming is covered
by the same funding.
“The grant funding completely
changed the landscape,” said Spearman-
Eskelson. “Because it was short notice, we
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ers and qualifi ed instructional assistants
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