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Board considers health center at high school
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local It’s too early for answers regarding a proposed school-based health center at Lebanon…
Santiam Academy prospers in online realm
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local The Lebanon Community School District has a new school no one has to…
Schools eye staff loss to vaccine mandates
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local The Lebanon Community School District expects to lose 15 classified staff this month…
Board hears, talks about kids’ return to school
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local The school district board meeting on Sept. 9 was mostly made up of…
School Board hears from protesters
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local Some 100 residents showed up at the Lebanon School Board’s meeting Thursday, Aug.…
Warriors graduate together, outside; ELCA graduates 25
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local Lebanon High School graduated 222 students this year in a ceremony that was…
Supt.: Past school year challenging
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local Looking back on the school year, Supt. Bo Yates presented an end-of-year update…
Lebanon increases kids’ time in school
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local Despite Linn County being elevated back into the “High” risk category for COVID,…
Board hears enrollment, scores down
By Sarah Brown Lebanon Local Parents gathered outside the Santiam Travel Station for the school board meeting Feb.…
COVID vaccinations to be administered to seniors, school staff
By Kelly Kenoyer Lebanon Local Gov. Kate Brown announced on Jan. 12 that new categories of people will…
LSD teachers complain to School Board
By Kelly Kenoyer Lebanon Local Lebanon School District is involved in a tough negotiation with the teacher’s union,…
Supt.: Plans in works for getting kids into schools
By Kelly Kenoyer Lebanon Local Just as COVID numbers started spiking dramatically in Oregon, the state lowered the…
Schools figuring things out as COVID keeps things remote
By Kelly Kenoyer Lebanon Local Lebanon School District is still struggling with enrollment and participation amid increasing COVID…
Home schooling causes enrollment drop for district
By Kelly Kenoyer Lebanon Local Supt. Bo Yates told the School Board Sept. 10, at its monthly meeting,…
K-3 students to start fall in classroom
By Kelly Kenoyer Lebanon Local Lebanon Community Schools intends to bring students in kindergarten through third grade back…
School Board members favor classroom time for younger grades as they ponder plans for fall
To view the entire School Board meeting, visit youtu.be/VfBfLWcghe0. By Scott Swanson Lebanon Local Lebanon students in kindergarten…
District working to implement state rules for schools, superintendent says
By Scott Swanson Lebanon Local School in Lebanon this fall will look a lot different for just about…
District to furlough staff, save money by taking advantage of unemployment
By Sean C. Morgan Lebanon Local Lebanon Community Schools will trade eight school days this year for eight…
Education carries on despite shutdown
By Sean C. Morgan Lebanon Local Educators and students are taking advantage of modern technology to get around…
School Board enacts excise tax for growth
By Sean C. Morgan Lebanon Local The Lebanon School Board voted Thursday evening to enact a construction excise…
School district to query public on how to spend state funding
By Sean C. Morgan Lebanon Local In the coming months, the Lebanon Community School District will gather input…
Elementary test scores hold steady, but are down at LHS, middle school
By Sean C. Morgan Lebanon Local Lebanon’s elementary schools mostly held firm or made slight improvements in the…
School district to apply for $4.5M grant
By Sean C. Morgan The Lebanon School Board on Thursday, Sept. 12, accepted a facilities assessment report and…
District to seek state matches for school repairs
The Lebanon School Board opened discussion last week about seeking a bond that could leverage matching state funds…
Board approves slightly reduced staffing in schools budget
The Lebanon School Board adopted a budget this week that will slightly reduce staffing levels in the 2019-20…