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Credit Karen Richards The Eugene 4J School District plans to return kindergarten and first grade to classrooms two days per week starting March 15th. If health metrics continue to improve and vaccines remain on schedule, they’ll invite 2nd through 5th grade back into schools on April 5th. 4J spokesperson Kerry Delf said inoculating 4J teachers and staff has been going faster than expected. “If vaccines continue to arrive on schedule as they have been," she said, "we actually anticipate being able to move up the start date for the hybrid for middle and high schools a little earlier than or...

KLCC's Karen Richards reports. Eugene 4J Chief of Staff Kerry Delf said quite a few elementary school families switched either from the hybrid in-school model to fully online learning or vice versa. About twice as many people moved from hybrid to online learning said Delf, but “The upshot is that we have about 70 percent of our families are planning to return to school buildings in the hybrid model when the time comes for the elementary grades.” Delf said teachers who are in schools will have the same cohort in person two days a week and online the rest. The 25% of families who chose to ...

Lane County Public Schools get their first vaccine dose numbers this week Kerry Delf said the 4J district will start vaccinating staff this Friday. Posted: Jan 28, 2021 12:01 AM Updated: Jan 28, 2021 12:28 AM Posted By: Connor McCarthy EUGENE, Ore.-- Lane County Public Health announced how many doses of the COVID-19 vaccine the county's school districts will be getting this week. Here is a breakdown of the districts: Bethel: 330 Springfield: 410 When it comes to the 4J School District, they're helping administer vaccines to smaller school districts like Crow, Applegate, and Lane County Educ...

Oregon graduation rates reach new high in 2020, with almost all students improving Oregon's high school graduation rate increased for the 2019-2020 school year, even as the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic derailed students' plans for the last few months of the school year, new data from the Oregon Department of Education shows. The four-year graduation rate reached a new high of 82.6%, topping the previous year's rate of 80%. It's the highest rate ever recorded in the state, according to ODE. But while every student group improved or stayed about the same, some students — such as ...

Credit Brian Bull / KLCC News After schools closed for winter break, Gov. Kate Brown announced on Dec. 23 that school reopening restrictions would shift from mandatory to advisory recommendations. This was with the goal of having more schools statewide return to some form of in-person learning by Feb. 15.  The change to advisory recommendations allows individual districts to return to learning based on their county’s public health conditions. But that doesn’t mean 4J will immediately return to in-person learning. In-Person Learning May Resume in Feb. As of now, the district’s reopening...