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Education
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Brook Rich, the director of
CTE and science, technology,
engineering, and mathemat-
ics at High Desert Education
Service District, estimates that
CTE programs across Central
Oregon schools have grown by
30% over the past five years.
Rich said the expansion
of programs regionally and
across the country is part of
a federal push, and because
schools have seen a statewide
infusion of funds supporting
the programs. It’s a comeback
after many programs through-
out the country and regionally
were gutted during the Great
Recession, she said.
Rich coordinates with
schools to develop programs,
a process that involves looking
at high-demand career sec-
tors in the region. The fastest
growing job sectors in Central
Oregon are currently health
care, manufacturing, con-
struction and technology, she
said.
Brian Cook, the principal
of Madras High School, said
a number of the school’s CTE
programs that were disman-
tled during the recession were
restored by 2015.
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Several of the career technical education modules that allow students an opportunity for hands-on learning
in construction at Crook County High School.
Graduation rates have since
skyrocketed.
In the 2015-16 school year,
the Madras High graduation
rate was 60% and grew to 91%
by 2018-19. The graduation
rate for Native American stu-
dents was 39% in 2015-16 and
shot up to 93% in 2018-19.
“CTE definitely plays a large
role in graduation rates for all
of our students because they’re
engaged,” Cook said. “They’re
doing something they love and
they come to school to do that.
“They see, ‘I’m doing some-
thing I love, and this can tran-
sition into something for me
in the future.’”
At Caldera High School,
Bend-La Pine Schools’ newest
campus, which opened earlier
this month, CTE classrooms
were intentionally placed by
the entrance so students could
pique their interest in the vari-
ous programs including health
sciences, engineering and de-
sign, construction, entrepre-
neurship and the arts.
Bekki Tucker, a business
teacher at the high school, said
students are encouraged to
take plenty of elective classes
in their first year to explore
different options.
“It’s a great way for kids to
explore rather than tie them
down to a specific pathway
early on in high school,” she
said. “This way they can find
their passion.
“A lot of my students go to
college. It’s just showing kids
that there’s other pathways be-
sides college. There are trade
schools. There are technical
programs that you can go to.”
Jeff Baisch, a business
teacher at La Pine High
School, offers three business
tracks for students including a
hospitality, tourism and recre-
ation track. He has partnered
with Sunriver Resort to con-
nect students to summer jobs,
which for many students has
turned into permanent em-
ployment after graduation.
“If we’re looking for a career
that has good upward mobility
for a student that isn’t going to
go to a four-year, working in
hospitality, tourism, recreation
in Central Oregon is really a
feasible option,” Baisch said.
Baisch also has a finance
track that includes a personal
finance class, an introduction
into banking and finance class
and advanced placement eco-
nomics.
He has partnered with Mid
Oregon Credit Union, which
employs and provides students
with industry training and
installed a student-run credit
union on campus.
Eden Hirshon-Stahl, a
freshman at Montana State
University majoring in ac-
counting, took Baisch’s hospi-
tality, tourism, recreation and
finance tracks throughout her
time at La Pine High School.
She also worked at the student
run credit union.
Hirshon-Stahl said the
classes made it clear that she
wanted to pursue a career in
accounting, and that the pro-
cess gave her a sense of accom-
plishment.
“I didn’t know if I wanted
to go to community college
or if I wanted to go to a four-
year,” she said. “But once I did
start, I realized that higher ed-
ucation, a four-year, is better
for me and better for what I
wanted to go into.
“It helped me choose and
really impacted my life in how
my path has gone so far.”
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Biden looks to turn page on 20 years of war in UN address
BY AAMER MADHANI
AND JOSH BOAK
Associated Press
NEW YORK — President
Joe Biden began his first visit
to the U.N. General Assem-
bly ready to make the case to
world leaders that after closing
the book on 20 years of war,
the U.S. aims to rally allies and
adversaries to work together
on a slew of crises, including
the COVID-19 pandemic, cli-
mate change and trade and
economics.
The president faced a
healthy measure of skepti-
cism when he arrived in New
York on Monday to start a
week of high-level diplomacy.
The opening months of his
presidency have included a
series of difficult moments
with friendly nations that
were expecting greater coop-
eration from Biden following
four years of Donald Trump’s
“America first” approach to
foreign policy.
To that end, soon after arriv-
ing in New York Monday eve-
ning, the president’s first stop
was to meet with U.N. Secre-
tary-General Antonio Guterres
to offer endorsements for the
body’s relevance and multilat-
eral coordination.
Biden, in brief remarks at
the start of the meeting, said
the assembly’s commitment to
achieving “prosperity, peace
and security for everyone” was
as important as ever with the
coronavirus pandemic and
climate change casting large
shadows around the globe.
“The vision of the United
Nations has never been short
on ambition, any more than
our Constitution,” Biden said.
But eight months into his
presidency, Biden has been out
of sync with allies on the cha-
otic ending to the U.S. war in
Afghanistan. He has faced dif-
ferences over how to go about
sharing coronavirus vaccines
with the developing world and
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Angel
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He vehemently turned down
offers of an attorney to assist in
his defense.
“Guilty is guilty. I don’t need
anybody to help me say it,” An-
gel told the court, appearing
by video from the Deschutes
County jail.
Angel remained Monday in
jail on $500,000 bail, and he is
scheduled to return to court
Sept. 27. Sykora noted Angel
would again be offered an at-
torney at that time.
“I’m not going to leave this
room I’m in right now,” Angel
said from the jail. “They’d bet-
ter make sure I stay here.”
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over pandemic travel restric-
tions. And there are questions
about the best way to respond
to military and economic
moves by China.
Biden also finds himself in
the midst of a fresh diplomatic
spat with France, the United
States’ oldest ally, after an-
nouncing plans — along with
Britain — to equip Australia
with nuclear-powered subma-
rines. The move is expected
to give Australia improved ca-
pabilities to patrol the Pacific
amid growing concern about
the Chinese military’s increas-
ingly aggressive tactics, but it
upended a French defense con-
tract worth at least $66 billion
to sell diesel-powered subma-
rines to Australia.
French Foreign Minister
Jean-Yves Le Drian said Mon-
day there’s a “crisis of trust”
with the U.S. as a result of the
episode.
Ahead of Biden’s arrival,
EU Council President Charles
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Michel strongly criticized the
Biden administration for leav-
ing Europe “out of the game
in the Indo-Pacific region”
and ignoring the underlying
elements of the trans-Atlan-
tic alliance — transparency
and loyalty — in the with-
drawal from Afghanistan
and the announcement of the
U.S.-U.K.-Australia alliance.
Despite such differences,
Biden is looking to use his
Tuesday address to the Gen-
eral Assembly as well as a se-
ries of one-on-one and larger
meetings with world leaders
this week to make the case for
American leadership on the
world stage.
“There are points of dis-
agreement, including when
we have disagreed with the
decisions other countries are
making, the decision points
of when countries have dis-
agreed with the decisions we’re
making,” White House press
secretary Jen Psaki said. “But
the larger point here, and what
you’ll hear the president talk
about tomorrow, is that we are
committed to those alliances,
and that always requires work
from every president, from ev-
ery global leader.”
In an interview ahead of his
meeting with Biden, Guterres
told The Associated Press that
he was concerned about the
“completely dysfunctional”
U.S.-China relationship and
that it could lead to a new cold
war. Psaki said the admin-
istration disagreed with the
assessment, adding that the
U.S.-China relationship was
“one not of conflict but of com-
petition.”
In his address Tuesday,
Biden plans to put a heavy
emphasis on the need for the
world leaders to work together
on the COVID-19 pandemic,
meeting past obligations to ad-
dress climate change, the need
to head off emerging technol-
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of the road on trade matters,
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new plans to assist the global
vaccination effort.