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Echo, Stanfield schools receive
Community Resource Officer
Hermiston hires graduation coach
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
STAFF WRITER
As the Hermiston School
District works to improve its
graduation rates, it will in-
tensify its focus on students
still a few years from receiv-
ing a diploma.
“We tend to be reactive,
especially with kids strug-
gling,” said Hermiston High
School Principal Tom Spoo.
“The goal here is to try and
be proactive.”
One step in that direction
is the creation of a gradu-
ation coordinator position,
funded by money coming
into the school from Mea-
sure 98, and hiring 2004
Hermiston graduate Omar
Medina for the job.
Medina said the specifics
of his role at the high school,
which started at the begin-
ning of this school year, are
still being determined. He
has spent his first few weeks
studying Measure 98 and
working with the counselors
to get recommendations for
students to work with.
Measure 98 was ap-
proved by voters in 2016 and
provides funding to increase
graduation rates by expand-
ing high school programs in
three areas: career and tech-
nical education, college-lev-
el education opportunities,
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS
Omar Medina has been hired
as Hermiston High School’s
first ever graduation
coordinator.
and
dropout-prevention
strategies. State funds are
alloted to school districts
based on the school’s av-
erage daily membership
(weighted), or enrollment.
For the 2017-2018 school
year, school districts were
required to submit written
requests to the Oregon De-
partment of Education de-
tailing how they would allo-
cate their funds. In the years
after, districts will have to
submit a biennial plan, iden-
tifying ways they will ad-
dress the three main tenets
of Measure 98.
Spoo said he hoped Me-
dina’s role will help pick up
some of the students who
might otherwise get missed
in a big school. Currently,
Hermiston High School has
1,677 students enrolled.
“I don’t want kids to get
lost,” he said. “Omar will
probably have time to work
with some juniors and se-
niors, too. We absolutely
believe this is a sustainable
position.”
The 2015-2016 gradu-
ation rate for the Hermis-
ton School District, which
included Hermiston High
School and the now-defunct
Innovative Learning Center,
was 65.68 percent, below
the state average of 74.8
percent. Hermiston High
School’s graduation rate by
itself was 87.6 percent.
The Innovative Learning
Center has been dissolved
and absorbed back into the
high school, but the online
courses will still be avail-
able to students. That facility
had a graduation rate of 4.08
percent, but school officials
noted that graduation was
not the goal for all students
in that program, with many
working toward a GED or
modified diploma. The com-
pletion rate for that program
was 37.8 percent.
Medina said he expects
his work will vary from
student to student, and will
rely somewhat on data that
shows which students need
the most help.
“I think the focus will
be on freshmen and soph-
omores,” Medina said.
“We’re really trying to not let
them get to the point where
they’re juniors and seniors,
and realize they need to do
credit retrieval. We’re help-
ing them get engaged in the
first two years of school.”
Medina said he will
be helping students with
goal-setting activities, as-
sessing what they want to
do after they graduate, and
helping them understand
what they need to do while
they’re still in high school
to get to that point. He ac-
knowledged that while col-
lege may not be the goal for
all students, a high school
diploma or GED is now re-
quired for many fields.
Spoo noted that while the
results of Medina’s work
may not be seen right away,
he expects the long-term ef-
fects of having a graduation
coordinator to be obvious.
“We’re trying to see the
number of disengaged stu-
dents drop,” Medina said.
“And the number of students
dropping out of school go
down.”
Spoo agreed.
“If we see a reduction of
kids getting pulled into cred-
it recovery, or kids getting
their parents called — if we
see that, we’re absolutely
being successful. But it will
probably take a couple of
years.”
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
STAFF WRITER
Some parents may be
alarmed to see a police offi-
cer regularly wandering the
halls of their child’s school.
But the goal of the new
Community Resource Of-
ficer at Echo and Stanfield
schools is to elicit just the
opposite reaction.
“I’m not here because
there are any problems,” said
Officer Joyce Wright, a Stan-
field police officer. Starting
this year, she will split some
of her time between Echo
and Stanfield school dis-
tricts, spending time in the
classrooms and hallways and
getting to know students.
“The Stanfield Police De-
partment wanted to get more
involved with the communi-
ty. The goal is to get some-
one in the school so they see
a familiar face (from the po-
lice),” she said.
Wright spends about 20
hours per week going be-
tween Echo and Stanfield
schools. She spends the rest
of her time working as a
code enforcement officer
and on general patrol.
“I bounce back and forth
between both schools during
the day,” she said. “I try to
make contact with each high
school at least once a day.”
Wright said the school
resource officer job is a
jack-of-all-trades position,
with some administrative
responsibilities like school
safety plans and emergency
drills. The main goal of her
position is to get involved in
classrooms and interact with
students and teachers on sub-
jects related to law enforce-
ment or drug and alcohol
abuse.
“We hope it will be a
good bridge between law
enforcement and students,”
said Echo School District su-
perintendent Raymon Smith.
While Wright hasn’t
taught any specific lessons
yet, she said her first weeks
getting to know students and
staff at both schools have
been positive.
“The other day, I talked to
a student about forensics and
careers in law enforcement,”
she said
Wright
previously
worked for Hermiston Po-
lice for 15 years, where she
spent time as a school re-
source officer at the middle
schools and two elementary
schools.
Superintendent Shelley
Liscom said the schools
wanted to use Wright’s posi-
tion to increase safety in the
school environment for both
students and staff.
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