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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Schools across the Klamath County School District opened their doors today (Sept. 5), greeting more than 7,100 students for their first day of the 2023-24 school year.
Read MoreIn one classroom, students wiped down tables and mopped floors to a shine. In another, a group replaced ceiling tiles. Outside, groups of students weeded flower beds and cleaned up grassy areas.
Read MoreAs the bell rang for break students streamed into the Bo’ Town Showcase, a newly renovated common area that highlights student achievements, provides study and meeting areas, and is home to the Bonanza Junior/Senior High School’s first-ever student store, the Grub Hub.
Read MoreBONANZA, Ore. – Forty Bonanza area families received gifts and holiday food boxes last week thanks to the efforts of Bonanza Junior/Senior High School and community partners, Bonanza Cares and Living Springs Fellowship Church.
Read MoreBonanza Junior/Senior High School math teacher Mallory Drake was named the local Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 1383’s Citizenship Education Teacher of the Year last week during a ceremony in front of the student body.
Read MoreBONANZA, Ore. – When Thomas Henderson passes by the new 32-by-10-foot mural in his school hallway, he is inspired by the face of Temple Grandin, a scientist, author, and proponent for the humane treatment of livestock.
Read MoreBONANZA, Ore. – It’s below freezing outside as Bonanza Junior/Senior High School Principal Jordan Osborn loads a truck with boxes of food and wrapped gifts for families in the Bonanza, Gearhart, Bly, and Sprague River areas.
Read MoreBonanza Junior/Senior High School has received a $2,000 equity and diversity grant from the OSAA Foundation to create an inclusion mural and organize cultural service projects on campus.
Read MoreBonanza Junior/Senior High School leadership students kicked off their year with a school-wide benefit – BoTown for ChiTown – for Chiloquin students and their families who were impacted by the Two Four Two Fire last month.
Read MoreSchools in the Klamath County School District, with the help of community organizations and generous anonymous donors, were able this holiday season to provide hundreds of pounds of food and more than 200 holiday meal baskets as well as gifts, specialty items, and new clothing for area families.
Read MoreA 7.1 earthquake just hit Klamath Falls, damaging roads and buildings. You are the principal of one of the 23 schools in the Klamath County School District, and hundreds of students just evacuated your school building. Now what?
Read MoreStudents at Bonanza Junior-Senior High School were asked that question Wednesday, and will be pondering its answer throughout the 2019-20 school year. The question is on bulletin boards in the hallways and above the inside of the school’s main entrance.
Read MoreThe anonymous Saint Nicholas – who teamed up with Chiloquin Junior-Senior High School student body president Dan Jones after connecting with him on Facebook -- donated $2,700 to help local youth in need.
Read MoreCHILOQUIN - Sahalie Crain stands unsmiling in the middle of the Chiloquin Junior-Senior High School gymnasium holding a handmade sign stating “Won’t Make It.”
Hannah Schroeder is on a bridge in town holding another sign: “Drop Out.” Lani Jackson stands near the railroad tracks. Her sign has one handwritten word: “Trouble.”
The signs held by the Chiloquin Junior-Senior High School students – three of 12 in a video created by the school’s leadership class last spring -- represent stereotypes and perceptions of Chiloquin youth. Today, those students are ripping the stereotypes to shreds.
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