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Olivera, then a counselor in
the school’s student success
program for first-generation
college students, marveled at
both her work ethic and her
attitude.
“She’s a young lady who’s
extremely grateful for every-
thing in her life,” Olivera
said. “I always saw her with
a smile.”
Moore came over to
Olivera’s seat and posed for
a quick photo with him, his
wife, Karen, and son, Andre.
She flashed a bright smile into
the camera.
Her
team
—
the
10th-seeded, Cinderella of the
NCAA women’s basketball
tourney — had a Herculean
job to do. To make the Final
Four, they had to survive
top-seeded UConn, a team
with a 110-game winning
streak extending back to 2014.
Faced with such an intim-
idating battle, a team needs
to be relaxed and confident
and have a deep bench. That’s
where Moore comes in.
“Mar’Shay is the one
who keeps you loose,” coach
Kelly Graves told the Eugene
Register-Guard. “You notice
before the game, she’s the
one in the center of the circle
kind of getting people fired
up. That’s an important role
to have.”
BMCC women’s basket-
ball coach Adam Driver said
Moore always managed to
cajole her teammates out of
their nervousness during her
time in Pendleton.
“She has this infectious
personality,” Driver said.
“Everyone’s usually nervous
going into a game. She kept
everyone loose.”
Moore cultivated her
positive view of life despite
Photo by Eric Evans
Contributed by Roman Olivera
Roman Olivera, the lead-
er of BMCC’s student
success program, gets
psyched to go and watch
the UO women play
UConn on Monday. Oli-
vera’s favorite UO player
is Mar’Shay Moore who
played basketball for
BMCC and participated
in the success program.
The virtual face paint was
computer generated by
the Die Hard Fan applica-
tion.
a rough youth, Driver said.
Her father is incarcerated.
She was raised by her grand-
mother. She spent the summer
between her freshman and
sophomore years doing
janitorial work and working
on her three-point shooting in
the gym.
“Every time she had a
break, she was in the gym
shooting,” Driver said. “Her
freshman year, she could
attack the rim, but she wasn’t
a great three-point shooter.
In her sophomore year, she
made 38 percent of her threes.
It was a game changer.”
The
5-foot-8
guard
averaged 24.1 points a game
her sophomore year, scoring
Former BMCC player Mar’Shay Moore passes the ball
on Nov. 13 during the Oregon Ducks’ game against the
Lamar Cardinals at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene.
“She has this infectious personality.
Everyone’s usually nervous going into
a game. She kept everyone loose.”
— Adam Driver, BMCC women’s basketball coach
a record 123 points over
four games at the Northwest
Athletic Conference tour-
nament. She was named the
NWAC player of the year.
On Monday, Olivera said
he hadn’t expected to get to
go to the game. His family
had traveled to Philadelphia
to watch daughter Evangelina
play softball for University
of the Sciences. Evangelina,
who has a connection with
Oregon, arranged the seats for
the Elite Eight game, though
she had to study for a final
instead of attending herself.
Just before the game,
Driver said he thought
Oregon had a chance. He had
texted with Moore earlier in
the day and told her to enjoy
the experience either way.
He would be watching on his
laptop between customers at
the Baskin-Robbins he owns
in Walla Walla.
“It’s going to be a difficult
task, but the way they’ve been
playing so far…,” Driver said.
“but they have nothing to lose
and that’s always dangerous.”
Monday wasn’t Oregon’s
night, however. Driver,
Olivera and thousands of
other fans watched UConn
put the Ducks through the
grinder. The overmatched
Oregon team lost 90-52.
Moore got into the game
near the end. Olivera said he
hoped to watch Oregon make
history, but realized UConn
would be tough. He refused to
let his pride waver.
“I’m a proud Oregonian
win or lose,” he said. “Even
though Oregon played a
tough team, it was great being
by their side.”
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SCHOOL: Rosa Parks report cards show modest improvement
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during a time when 85
percent of Americans were
involved in agriculture and
school facilities had few
temperature controls.
Around the 1960s, schools
eventually settled into a
calendar that encompassed
170 to 180 days.
While switching to a year-
round schedule is somewhat
of a throwback, it can be a
challenge for the schools that
make that jump.
Although Rosa Parks
communicated extensively
about the new schedule,
Newsome said the school
still lost some students from
the transition.
Families with children in
both elementary school and
middle school presented a
particular challenge. While
Rosa Parks was a K-5
school, other schools in the
district are K-8, making it
easier to send students to the
same school with the same
schedule.
Rosa Parks underwent
these growing pains because
school officials thought it
would make a difference
academically.
Academic bump
Education
researchers
aren’t on the same page about
the effects of a year-round
schedule.
Some research concludes
that year-round school can
improve student perfor-
mance, especially amongst
at-risk children.
Others argue that there’s
little difference in academic
performance between year-
round schools and schools
with
more
traditional
calendars. Any academic
gains students make, these
researchers write, are from
schools that have added days
to the school year rather than
adopting a simple reconfigu-
ration.
Newsome
said
the
school was well aware of
the research during the
transition, and incorporated
“intervention weeks” into the
year-round calendar.
While students who are
performing at or above grade
level attend as many school
days as most other children
in Portland Public Schools,
students that are struggling
can attend school up to 14
extra days through interven-
tion weeks.
Set for the last week of
each three-week breaks,
Newsome said intervention
weeks are an important part
of the schedule. She said
intervention weeks aren’t
just for extra instruction and
Photo contributed by Portland Public Schools
Students at Rosa Parks Elementary School eat lunch
on the first day of school in 2016. The school is the only
one in Oregon with a year-round schedule.
school work, but also include
field trips and excursions.
Teachers are expected to
teach class during at least one
intervention week, and after
Newsome was forced to hire
substitute teachers during the
first year-round schedule,
there’s enough buy-in from
faculty that Rosa Parks is no
longer short-staffed during
intervention weeks.
The school also has buy-in
from students, with teachers
reporting to Newsome that
they’ve overheard their
students encouraging their
classmates to attend inter-
vention weeks.
“We’re changing the very
culture of the school,” she
said.
More
than
halfway
through its third year of
year-round school, Newsome
said Rosa Parks is showing
progress.
Rosa Parks report cards
show modest improvement
in performance from Year
1 to Year 2 and Newsome
said at-risk students are also
showing growth.
As Rosa Parks becomes
more comfortable with its
schedule, staff are finding
ways to address some of the
year-round calendar’s gaps.
For parents who have
trouble finding child care
during
school
breaks,
Newsome said the school
worked with the Boys &
Girls Club — it shares a
building with Rosa Parks —
to open its doors at 8 a.m.
on days when school isn’t in
session.
Newsome said she’s also
open to working with parents
who want to send their kids
to summer camp or take
vacations during the summer
when it conflicts with school
days.
Portland Public Schools
sees enough merit to keep
Rosa Parks’ schedule intact
and has already granted the
school year-round status for
the 2017-2018 school year.
Local reaction
Although Rosa Parks has
seen some success with its
unconventional
schedule,
it hasn’t gained traction in
Eastern Oregon.
Having grown up in
Australia where year-round
school was the norm,
Pendleton School Board
chairwoman Debbie McBee
said she has personally
experienced the benefits the
schedule can bring.
But as a member of the
school board, McBee said
it would be a tough sell to
parents used to extended
summer vacations and high
school athletes with compe-
tition schedules incompatible
with year-round school,
although she thought some
working parents might like
a calendar that wouldn’t
require finding childcare for
summer break.
And while year-round
school might succeed in a
large urban city like Portland,
would it be as successful in
an area where agriculture is
still an important industry?
Leah Smith, an agriculture
teacher at Hermiston High
School and a Future Farmers
of America advisor, said that
like the rest of country, a
majority of farms in Eastern
Oregon are corporately
owned.
Because of this trend,
Smith said only handful of
local FFA kids come from
farming families, with most
joining the organization to
develop their leadership
skills and utilize its other
services.
While year-round school
would be a challenge for
students who need to return
to the farm to help their
parents, Smith said it would
be more common to find
high school students who
would no longer be able to
work a summer job because
of i;t.
While year-round school
isn’t a distinct reality for any
local schools at this point, it
does have its advocates.
McBee said year-round
school was suggested at a
recent strategic plan meeting
and will be a point of discus-
sion going forward.
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asierra@eastoregonian.com
or 541-966-0836.
TWO
HOURS
every
morning
paid off
my credit
card debt.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Oregon officer says he warned
teen not to reach for waist
PORTLAND (AP) — A
Portland police officer who
fatally shot a 17-year-old
boy last month told a Mult-
nomah County grand jury
that he warned the teenager
several times to keep his
hands away from his waist,
according to a transcript
of the hearing released
Monday.
Officer Andrew Hearst
testified that he fired his
rifle three times when he
saw Quanice Hayes reach
to the front of his waistband
despite several officers
telling him to keep his
hands up.
The officer said he
perceived the movement
to be “very intentional
and very deliberate,” The
Oregonian/Oregon
Live
reported.
Hearst also testified he
didn’t see Hayes with a
gun in his hand when he
fired his rifle, but he said he
couldn’t wait until he was
sure it was there.
A grand jury last week
declined to indict Hearst on
criminal charges in the Feb.
9 shooting after concluding
that Hearst, who joined the
Portland Police Department
in 2010, was justified in
shooting Hayes.
Hayes was shot twice
in the torso and once in the
head. Toxicology results
showed numerous drugs
in Hayes’ blood including
cocaine.
Venus
Hayes
has
demanded a U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice investiga-
tion into her son’s death.
She said at a news confer-
ence last week that none of
the accusations against her
son were sufficient grounds
for his “execution.”
MERGE: Number of therapy
and counseling licenses has
grown over past decade
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The current executive
director of both boards,
Charles
Hall,
told
lawmakers during a budget
hearing last month that the
number counselors and ther-
apists licensees and interns
“continues to soar.”
Over the past decade,
the number of counseling
and therapy licenses has
grown an average of about
14 percent per year. The
number of psychologist
licensees, about 12 percent.
Three additional FTEs
would be assigned to
licensing issues.
Complaints
have
increased as well — for the
board of counselors and
therapists, about 15 percent
per year, and psychologists,
9.5 percent.
Total
investigations
jumped 33 percent between
2011 and 2016, Hall said.
Hall told members of the
Legislature’s Joint Subcom-
mittee on Education that
the board had been using
temporary employees to fill
the gaps.
Personnel costs drive
about half of the boards’
expenses.
Predicting the budget
for the boards can be diffi-
cult, Hall told lawmakers,
because expenses such as
attorneys’ fees for contested
cases can range from
hundreds of dollars to tens
of thousands of dollars per
case.
The governor also
proposed increasing licensee
and intern renewal fees for
counselors and therapists by
$40.
Licensure fees for coun-
selors and therapists have
not increased since 2002,
according to the board.
Hall did not respond to a
request for further comment
Monday.
The two boards get most
of their revenue from fees
— including those assessed
for licenses — and receive
no money from the state’s
general fund or lottery
funds.
Sen. Rod Monroe,
D-Portland, said at the
subcommittee meeting last
month that the Legislature’s
role is to provide some over-
sight, despite the boards’
limited impact on the state’s
overall budget.
MARIJUANA: Appeals hearing
has tentative date of April 18
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how many vehicles use
Tutuilla Road.
But the real issue, they
stated, comes down to how
the marijuana business will
affect “the public that live
in this area, especially the
children and youth.”
A marijuana store would
be across the street from a
school bus stop that 40 or
more children use. While the
law prohibits the use of mari-
juana outside or providing
the substance to minors, the
appeal asserted there is no
guarantee customers would
not use near children.
Furthermore, they wrote,
keeping marijuana out of the
hands of youth must be a
consideration.
Chase said the appeals
hearing before the city
council has a tentative date
of April 18. The process
will be much like a planning
commission hearing, she
said, where proponents and
opponents have the opportu-
nity to give their sides. Then
the council decides.
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Contact Phil Wright at
pwright@eastoregonian.
com or 541-966-0833.
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