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Aug 12, 2010The South County Spotlight
Parents of children in the St. Helens school district will have another tool for protecting their children in the next school year. The district plans to rollout a program called AmberVision, a child-information database intended to disseminate information about a child in the event one goes ...
Aug 4, 2010The South County Spotlight
The Scappoose School District and the St. Helens School District failed to meet criteria for "Adequate Yearly Progress," according to a report released from the state Monday. Although both districts met almost all student achievement benchmarks for reading and math categories, both had ...
Jun 30, 2010The South County Spotlight
No school district in Oregon is safe from downsizing, thanks in large part to a 9 percent across-the-board cut to state funding. For St. Helens and Scappoose, the budgetary ax has fallen, and both have struggled to figure out where, and how deep, to make cuts. St. Helens School District The St. ...
Jun 16, 2010The South County Spotlight
The St. Helens School District is looking to cut $1.3 million from their proposed budget and some residents are concerned what school programs will be trimmed down ? or cut ? altogether. A crowd of over 200 attended a district budget committee meeting last week with most there to plead ...
Jun 10, 2010The Portland Tribune
The Oregon Department of Education is asking the St. Helens School District to alter its proposed middle school sex education curriculum because the state agency says it violates state law by not adequately teaching about contraceptives. Portland-based Northwest Family Services, the publisher of ...
Jun 30, 2010The South County Spotlight
After five years as superintendent of the St. Helens School District, Patricia Adams announced Monday, June 28, that she'll be stepping down from the position effective June 30, 2011. Adams said she planned to retire in order to spend more time with her family. She called the last five years ...
Dec 6, 2009The South County Spotlight
St. Helens School District and its community partners are hosting a community safety forum, "Keeping our kids safe from drugs and alcohol" at 6:45 p.m. on Dec. 10 at St. Helens Middle School. A panel of representatives from Columbia County Mental Health, St. Helens Police Department ...
Aug 15, 2009The South County Spotlight
The St. Helens School District Board signaled its intentions Monday to move forward with plans to eliminate a potentially fatal hazard to students walking to St. Helens High School. Currently a bottleneck exists on Gable Road where the west end of the high school abuts a residence. A telephone ...
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