Yamhill County is remaining in the high risk category for COVID-19 transmission for another week, as another five counties moved to moderate or low risk categories effective .
An outbreak of COVID-19 at the Delphian School in Sheridan has sickened 40 students and six staff members, according to the Oregon Health Authority. It’s one of .
May 14, 2021
County just more than half-vaxxed
Four schools in Yamhill County are reporting COVID-19 cases among their students, while slightly more than half the county’s COVID-19 vaccine-eligible population has now been vaccinated, county Health and Human Services Director Lindsey Manfrin told elected officials this week.
Manfrin and Jody Christensen, the coordinator for the state Regional Solutions task force, spoke to a weekly roundtable of elected officials by Zoom on Tuesday, to explain more about the announcement this week by Governor Kate Brown that most state restrictions will be lifted once 70% of the population 16 and older has been at least partially vaccinated.
COVID-19 Reminds Me of 1994 Report, ‘Prisoners of Time’
As much as schools have adopted to COVID-19, their underlying one-schedule-fits-all educational model remains the same. A 1994 report, and several recent examples, hint at what could be changed for the better. Shutterstock
We’ve all experienced COVID-related events and circumstances we never predicted. We’ve had to change everything, and the stresses and strains are not over yet. Parents and students have a very understandable and very intense desire to go back to their pre-COVID education system. They miss their friends, their sports, their activities. But most don’t miss their industrial-model schools. We can’t go back and we shouldn’t go back (at least not for very long), because now is the opportunity to do schools, and education, better. The best way to improve our schools is to change how we use time and how we think about time in our schools.