Should Oregon Schools Stop Standardized Tests This Year?
With so little time in school buildings, districts are looking to opt out and scale back. But at what cost?
By
Julia Silverman
4/13/2021 at 5:38pm
Schools around Oregon are grappling with standardized testing in a pandemic school year.
Next week, thousands of middle and high schoolers around the Portland metro area will return to school buildings for the first time since March of 2020, after Gov. Kate Brown ordered that every public school district in the state needed to provide some face-to-face time with teachers before the end of the school year.Â
To celebrate, there will beâ¦â¦standardized tests?Â
EAGLE POINT, Ore. Some students in the Eagle Point School District began returning to the classroom in-person Monday.
Students have the option to stay home with comprehensive distance learning or they can go back to campus using a socially-distanced hybrid model.
Following a 10-month hiatus from in-person learning, a buzz of excitement is floating around the school district.
School is back in class.
Table Rock Elementary principal, Valerie Shehorn, says Pre-K through 5th grade are back on campus 5 days a week.
“The kids are happy, it’s a bit of normalcy in our lives and it feels more like school,” said Shehorn.
Eagle Point School Board joins Medford push for more in-person learning
The Eagle Point School Board passed a resolution on Wednesday, heeding the call from Medford to pressure Governor Brown for relaxed coronavirus metrics.
Posted: Dec 10, 2020 4:05 PM
Updated: Dec 11, 2020 3:49 PM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
EAGLE POINT, Ore. The Eagle Point School District Board of Directors announced on Thursday that they have heeded the call from their Medford counterparts to pressure Governor Kate Brown for relaxed coronavirus metrics in an effort to bring more students back into classrooms.
Medford School District s Board of Directors passed a resolution last week that urges Governor Brown to follow the science and revisit the state s coronavirus metrics for schools for a second time. Along with the resolution came a message from the Board exhorting other local districts and community members to add their voices.