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Mapleton
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apleton School District
held its annual Welcome
Back Barbecue on Sept.
23 for students, staff and families.
“We had an amazing turn out,”
said Superintendent Jodi O’Mara.
“It was great to see parents visiting their child’s classroom and enjoying a BBQ together with the com-
munity. We are very lucky to live in such an amazing place!” Mapleton School District also extends a
special thank you to True Value Hardware and Florence Saw Shop for donating the use of a scissor lift
so that people could pressure wash and paint the football goal posts — Submitted by Jodi O’Mara
Florence Community PTA
‘Every Student Succeeds’ with Florence PTA
PTA holds first meeting
Florence Community
PTA is off to a strong
start for the upcoming
school year. Back-to-
school activities for
teachers and staff, as
well as students and
families, have been
going on since mid-
August.
PTA held its first
meeting of the year on
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Tuesday, Sept. 20, at
Board
president
Tiffany
Holdahl
Siuslaw
Elementary
welcomes
members
to
the
2016-
School.
17
school
year.
Board
President
Tiffany Holdahl pre-
Florence Community PTA is
sented 2016-17 board members parents, teachers and communi-
and highlighted programs and ty working together to improve
events planned for the school and support education, health,
year ahead.
safety and well-being of all
New programs this year children and youth. The organi-
include a Color-A-Thon fun zation serves all of the Siuslaw
run, in conjunction with the district schools.
annual Fall Fitness Fair on Nov.
Membership is open to any-
5, and PTA Take Your Family to one: parents and guardians,
School Week and Multi- grandparents,
community
Cultural Fair in February.
members, teachers and staff,
Leonard Ulrich, new assis- and even youth who are inter-
tant principal for Siuslaw ested in being a part of an
Elementary
and
Middle organization working to better
schools, introduced himself and their education.
spoke about his experience and
Membership forms can be
what direction he’ll be focusing downloaded online at www.
on in the Siuslaw district.
florencepta.org, or picked up at
The PTA members approved one of the schools. Keep up
three grant applications for pro- with events and programs on
grams and supplies, submitted Facebook
at
Florence
by teachers, which totaled near- Community PTA. — Submitted
ly $600.
by Diane McCalmont
Community members and
school staff gathered in the
Commons of Siuslaw Middle
School on the afternoon of Sept.
17. The topic: ESSA (Every
Student Succeeds Act), new leg-
islation that replaces the No
Child Left Behind Act of 2002.
The forum was hosted by
Florence Community PTA in
conjunction with Oregon State
PTA.
The afternoon forum began
with an overview of the history
of ESSA, led by Collin
Robinson, Oregon State PTA
president.
The origins of ESSA stem
from
the
50-year
old
Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA), which
emphasized equal access to edu-
cation for all students. In 2002,
ESEA was reauthorized through
the No Child Left Behind Act,
which was based on the premise
of setting high standards and
establishing measurable goals.
NCBA required states to give
assessments to all students in
certain grade levels, and some
funding was connected to test
outcomes.
ESSA sets up expectations
for schools receiving federal
education funding. It retains the
idea of standardized testing, but
shifts the law’s accountability
requirements to states. The new
law gives states more flexibility
Florence Community PTA hosts an Every Student Succeeds Act forum on Sept. 17.
in setting standards and ensur- from
Oregon
Education
For more information about
ing that all students have equal Association, as well as Oregon ESSA, go to www.ode.state.or.
opportunities to succeed.
PTA Legislative Representative, us. — Submitted by Diane
Oregon State Department of Otto Schell.
McCalmont
Education has been holding
work
group
discussions
throughout the state since April
of this year, inviting school
administrators, parents, teach-
ers and education organizations
to join the discussion.
Stakeholders in Oregon have
the opportunity to help decide
how ESSA will work in the
state. The goal is to take advan-
tage of the law’s flexibility to
move toward a system that is
more equitable throughout the
state.
Along with Robinson, speak-
ers included a representative
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