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What Will Next School Year Look Like?

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…

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Portland features three Jewish day schools

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,…

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Childhood Obesity

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…