This fall, school will look very different for Oregon students. Maybe it’ll look a lot like this spring. Maybe it’ll be more like last fall. Or very possibly, school will be somewhere in between. The Oregon Department of Education released a blueprint for how schools should operate amid COVID-19. And it’s up to individual schools to…
Portland Jewish Academy Principal Merrill Hendin is looking forward to a banner year. “We still have enrollment coming in, and we are in a very good spot,” she said, just days after returning from a mid-summer vacation. Portland’s flagship Jewish school will have about 190 kindergarten through 8th-grade students when classes start after Labor Day,…
Synagogues, schools and special-needs providers – to me, these are each an integral part of community. This issue of Oregon Jewish Life features special sections on synagogues and schools. Oregon has seen an explosion in options for both in recent decades. We also devote our Through the Ages section to looking at ways the community…
Early on a misty Friday morning, a cacophony of footsteps and the happy chatter of children can be heard as they get closer to Vernon School, a Pre-K to 8 school in Northeast Portland. It’s the sound of a “walking school bus” making its way to school through the neighborhood. The “bus” swells to about…
