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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Four high schools in the Klamath County School District boasted graduation rates above 93 percent in 2022 and two of those – Lost River Junior/Senior High School and Chiloquin Junior/Senior High School – had perfect graduation rates of 100 percent.
Read MoreThe Klamath County School District Board of Directors will send a second resolution to Gov. Kate Brown urging the state to change COVID-19 requirements to recommendations and allow the district to work directly with Klamath County Public Health to determine the appropriate mitigation strategies for its schools.
Read MoreGILCHRIST, Ore. – Serenity pushes her shopping cart up to the register at the miniature toy Gilchrist Grocery Store. The clerk is one of her preschool classmates, who counts out her change before handing her the pretend money.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The local grassroots youth-serving nonprofit, Citizens for Safe Schools (CFSS) has received a generous grant through the Washington Federal Foundation, in the amount of $10,000. This grant award will support the agency’s newly launched Youth Reengagement Program.
Read MoreKlamath County School District’s request to adjust physical distancing requirements in classrooms was not part of new state guidance released Monday. Without this change, students will continue attending school under their current hybrid and in-person schedules and models.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Over the past year, the pandemic presented schools and school districts with a variety of challenges that resulted in high numbers of academically disengaged youth. In an effort to promote reengagment, Citizens for Safe Schools has developed the Youth Reengagement Program.
Read MoreThe Klamath County School District Board of Directors is asking the state to adjust reopening metrics to allow all county students the option of returning to full-time, in-person instruction on April 5.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Klamath Community College is pleased to announce the college has received a $92,000 grant to recruit and train K-12 educators in Klamath and Lake counties.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Both school districts in Klamath County plan to reopen schools to in-person instruction for all students starting Jan. 11. New guidance by Gov. Kate Brown changed COVID-19 case metrics from mandatory to advisory, allowing school districts to work with local public health officials to determine when to reopen schools.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - Klamath County School District Superintendent, Glen Szymoniak has written a letter addressed to “KCSD Families,” in regards to the continuation of in-person learning, COVID metrics, and what it means to the district.
Read MoreWith COVID-19 set to be present in Oregon communities for the foreseeable future, Governor Kate Brown, the Oregon Department of Education and the Oregon Health Authority have released an update to the Ready Schools, Safe Learners guidance, which features new metrics for returning to in-person instruction in Oregon schools.
Read MoreSalem, Ore. - Secretary of State Beverly Clarno today released a report revealing that the Oregon Department of Education has fully or partially implemented only seven of 13 recommendations to improve Oregon’s near worst in the nation high school graduation rate. The recommendations were made in a 2017 audit overseen by former Secretary of State Dennis Richardson.
Read MoreSALEM, OR — Secretary of State Bev Clarno announced the appointment of State Representative Cheri Helt (R-Bend) as the Secretary of State designee to the State Board of Education.
Read MoreGovernor Kate Brown today commended Oregon students and teachers for an almost seven-point jump in graduation rates during her administration.
Read MoreThe graduation rate for Klamath County School District high school students increased in 2018 for the fourth year in a row and continues to exceed the state average.
According to data released today (Jan. 24) by the Oregon Department of Education, the county school district’s overall four-year cohort graduation rate for 2017-18 was 79.20 percent, up 1.33 percentage points from the year before, and slightly higher than the state average of 78.65.
Read MoreSALEM, OR — The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) and Portland Public Schools (PPS) must do more to evaluate costs and eliminate persistent barriers to student performance at struggling, high-poverty schools.
Read MoreKlamath County School District’s rate of chronically absent students is lower than the rate for Oregon as a whole.
Information released by the Oregon Department of Education on Thursday, Oct. 19, listed the district’s chronic absenteeism rate at 15.3 percent. That is 4.4 percentage points lower than the statewide rate of 19.7 percent.
“It’s always great when you’re performing better than the state average,” said Superintendent Greg Thede. “But there’s still work to do. We’d like the chronically absent rate under 10 percent.”
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