by Ty Davison | Apr 14, 2023 | News & Commentary
Local schools to install refuges for teachers, staff to address stress, fatigue – Salem Reporter: Teachers at about a dozen schools in the Salem-Keizer School District soon will get a place to retreat when the day’s work seems overwhelming. Backed by a health...
by Ty Davison | May 9, 2022 | News & Commentary
Salem-Keizer will continue to push ahead with a deeply flawed “embedded honors” program while eliminating most advanced classes. This terrible idea springs from a flawed premise: That disparity equals discrimination. The result will be that high achieving...
by Ty Davison | May 6, 2020 | News & Commentary
Assuming that the governor is acting within her lawful authority—I would think she is, but I’m not an attorney—it’s hard to see how this business owner isn’t in legal trouble. That’s to say nothing of the public relations nightmare....
by Ty Davison | Oct 15, 2017 | News & Commentary
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2017/10/14/united-ways-suspends-grant-program-nonprofits-mid-willamette-valley/757509001/Salaries and related expenses in its current budget are $412,070 out of more than $1.15 million in total expenses....
by Ty Davison | Sep 20, 2002 | News & Commentary
Battle Ground, Washington Whew. The two September ballot measures that had to pass to avoid any more cuts to education made it through by roughly 60-40 margins. That’s a bummer if you’re a smoker for one, and the conversion of an endowment fund into a...