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Students of color get short shrift
School districts in whiter, more affluent communities offer up to three times more teaching in-person.
Updated on Apr 03, 2021;
Published on Apr 03, 2021
Elementary students in the rural Oregon Trail district have been attending class in-person since mid-February. That s nearly a month earlier than some districts serving the Portland area s most diverse families. The Oregonian
Editor s Note
This is the first of two parts looking at how much in-person instruction students receive in the largest Portland-area districts. This entry focuses on elementary schools. Next up? Middle and high schools.
As Portland-area elementary schools reopen, students face glaring disparities in the amount of time they get face-to-face with teachers and classmates differences that are strongly linked to race and class.
January 26 2021
As West Linn-Wilsonville and Lake Oswego roll back plans, 10 other districts push forward with in-person learning.
At least two school districts in the metro area have put the brakes on their plans to have students physically present in class after much discussion and even protests from local parents and teachers.
The West Linn-Wilsonville School District had second thoughts during a board meeting on Jan. 25, following on the heels of a similar decision in Lake Oswego.
But it s still full speed ahead for reopening in ten other metro area school districts, Pamplin Media Group has confirmed. Estacada School District began hybrid learning for kindergarteners and first-graders on Jan. 25. Second- through fifth-grade families are expected to arrive, if they so choose, on Feb. 8.
East Clackamas school districts test out a return to class January 26 2021
Oregon Trail and Estacada school district administration lead push for reopening with restrictions amid COVID-19 pandemic
When Estacada kindergarteners began returning to the classroom earlier this week, many students were meeting each other in-person for the first time. I have kids ask, am I going to see so-and-so? They re so excited, Clackamas River Elementary teacher Shellie Adams said prior to the district s kindergarten and first grade students moving to hybrid learning on Monday, Jan. 25. I can t wait for them to see each other.
Schools got new reopening rules Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 19, that eased guidelines enough to allow elementary school students in the metropolitan area to get back to school buildings.