Polk County Itemizer-Observer • August 19, 2015 15A
Polk County Education
Tools: 180 Falls City students get
backpacks, supplies, hair cuts
JOLENE GUZMAN/Itemizer-Observer
Jacob Major examines a new backpack on Thursday.
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Thanks to a more than
$1,300 grant from the Siletz
Tribal Charitable Contribu-
tion Fund, the Salvation
Army was able to purchase
more supplies than in the
past.
Baurer said the Salvation
Army brought 180 back-
packs to give to students in
the Falls City School District,
including home-schooled
children.
She said that estimate was
a few short, so the organiza-
tion will be making deliver-
ies this week to children who
didn’t receive one on Thurs-
day.
Backpacks were sorted by
grade and contained all the
supplies on that grade’s list
for the 2015-16 school year.
Baurer said the Salvation
Army was able to purchase
“collective” supplies for each
classroom, too.
Derby said, thanks to the
event, her daughter is going
to be set for her first day.
“I got a lot of stuff,” Aray-
dia said handing her mother
a new comb the stylist gave
her.
Then the normally shy girl
ran off to play on the bouncy
house with other children.
“She’s very excited,” Derby
said. “She told me ‘I’m going
to make new friends at the
park today,’ … It’s wonderful.
I can’t express my gratitude
enough.”
DHS, LaCreole registration ongoing
DALLAS — Registration for Dallas High School and LaCreole
Middle School continues this week.
At DHS, sophomores are scheduled for registration Wednes-
day (today) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The final day of registration,
Thursday is reserved for freshmen from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For those unable to make those times, registration is open 5
to 7 p.m. Thursday. Families with more than one student attend-
ing DHS may register all on the day designated for the oldest
student. Students who are new to the district may register on
any day.
LaCreole Middle School, 701 SE LaCreole Drive, Dallas, will
register returning in-district students on Wednesday (today)
from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. Students new to the
district can register on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
For more information: Dallas High School, 503-623-8336;
LaCreole Middle School, 503-623-6662.
Morrison to hold registration
DALLAS — Morrison Campus Alternative School is holding
registration starting next week.
The school, located at 1251 Main St., is offering registration
for students on Monday and Tuesday, and Aug. 26 and Aug. 27.
Registration hours are 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day.
For more information: 503-623-8480.
Registration for Talmadge continues
New plan hopes to help Native students
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
SALEM — The Oregon Board of Edu-
cation has adopted an updated plan to
improve educational opportunities for
Native American students.
The plan, called the American Indi-
an/Alaska Native State Plan, was creat-
ed during a nine-month process in col-
laboration with the state’s nine federal-
ly recognized tribes, including the Con-
federated Tribes of Grand Ronde.
Objectives in the plan include:
boosting attendance and graduation
rates for American Indian/Alaska Na-
tive students; providing culturally rele-
vant training for school district staff;
increasing the number of Native in-
structors teaching in Oregon schools;
and implementing historically-accu-
rate Native American curriculum and
materials across the K-12 system.
Also included in the plan are strate-
gies to achieve those goals and meas-
urements to determine if they are suc-
cessful. Those include providing more
information to Native students about
academic assistance programs available
and opportunities to attend college.
“I want to thank all of our tribal and
community partners for their partici-
pation in this process,” said April
Campbell, Oregon Department of Edu-
cation Advisor on Indian Education.
“Improving education for our Native
students must be a joint effort —
something owned by our schools, our
tribes, our families, and our communi-
ties as a whole.”
The advisory panel included repre-
sentatives from the Confederated
Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua &
Siuslaw; Klamath Tribes; Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs; Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde; Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reserva-
tion; Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe
of Indians; Coquille Indian Tribe; Burns
Pauite; Confederated Tribes of the
Siletz Indians; Native American Youth
and Family Center; Oregon Indian Ed-
ucation Association; Oregon State Uni-
versity; University of Oregon; George
Fox University; Northwest Health
Foundation; and the Oregon Education
Investment Board.
Leslie Riggs, with the Confederated
Tribes of Grand Ronde’s education de-
partment, was part of the advisory
panel on the plan. However, he joined
the panel when the bulk of the work
had already finished and, because of
that, declined to comment on the plan.
For more information on the plan,
go to: www.ode.state.or.us/opportuni-
ties/grants/nclb/title_vii/2015-final-
oregon-american-indian-alaska-na-
tive-state-plan.pdf.
INDEPENDENCE — Registration for Talmadge Middle School
runs through Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. and again from 5 to 7
p.m. each day.
Sixth-grade registration was Tuesday. Seventh-graders regis-
ter on Wednesday (today). Eighth graders may register on Thurs-
day.
For more information: Talmadge Middle School, 503-606-
2252.
County to hold immunization clinics
DALLAS — Polk County Public Health will hold four immu-
nization clinics to prepare children for back to school.
Appointments must be made in advance for the clinics.
School immunizations will be available on Wednesday
(today), Aug. 26 and Sept. 9 from 8 to 11 a.m. and from 1 to 4
p.m. at the agency’s Dallas clinic, 182 SW Academy St. Suite 302.
On Sept. 9, a clinic also will be held in Independence from 1 to 4
p.m. at Oregon Child Development Coalition, 535 G St.
For more information: 503-623-8175.
Teachers: District in need of subs
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Universities may start
beefing up teacher prep pro-
grams and recruiting, but
“it’s almost inevitable that
the economy will cycle,” she
said. “I don’t know what the
answers are for that.”
One way Central is han-
dling the lack of teachers is
through “grow your own”
programs, by recruiting stu-
dents in high school to at-
tend Western Oregon Uni-
versity’s teacher prep pro-
grams, or by supporting in-
structional assistants who
want to move to the ranks of
teachers.
With just more than two
weeks left until school starts,
the district is still looking for
workers.
“An area that all districts
will struggle with this year,
and did last year, is substitute
teachers,” McFarland said.
Anyone with a bachelor’s
degree can petition to be a
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substitute teacher with the
district, he added.
The district also is hiring
bus drivers and after-school
tutors, Zeimantz said.
“It’s really an ideal job for
(college) students,” she
noted. Bus drivers work a
split shift, and college stu-
dents could fit their school
schedule in between driving
kids to and from school.
To see what positions the
district is still hiring for: cen-
tral.k12.or.us.
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