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High school back to online learning after COVID-19 outbreak May 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail BEND, Ore. (AP) — A COVID-19 outbreak at a central Oregon high school that required nearly half its students and staff into quarantine has prompted school officials to send students back to online learning for nearly two weeks. As of Friday afternoon, 15 staff members and students from La Pine High School had been diagnosed with COVID-19, The Bulletin reported. A letter sent to families Friday by interim principal Anne-Marie Schmidt said that resulted in the larger quarantine. She told the newspape...

Coronavirus updates Tuesday: Lane County reports 25 new cases, 1 new death Register-Guard Lane County on Tuesday reported one new COVID-19 death, raising the death toll to 151. Lane County Public Health also reported 25 confirmed or presumptive cases of COVID-19, raising the countywide case count to 13,398. There were 147 people considered infectious, down nine from Monday. Twenty people were hospitalized, up two from Monday; six were in intensive care, up one from Monday; and one was on a ventilator, unchanged from Monday. As of Monday, 167,410 residents of Lane County have been fully v...

Bend-La Pine Schools continues to offer free meals for remainder of the school year Bend-La Pine Schools’ free meal services are expanding to all school sites, as schools reopen for in-person learning, Nutrition Services Supervisor Garra Schluter announced today. Schluter says the meals program is changing its practices to offer free meal options both for those students who are attending in-person school as well as offering several ‘Grab and Go’ sites for students who are learning from home. All meals served will be free of charge, through the end of the school year. “We are excited t...

Back in school or ‘Grab and Go,’ Bend-La Pine offers free meals through school year BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Bend-La Pine Schools’ free meal services are expanding to all school sites as schools reopen for in-person learning, Nutrition Services Supervisor Garra Schluter announced Monday. Schluter said the meals program is changing its practices, to offer free meal options both for those students who are attending in-person school, as well as offering several ‘Grab and Go’ sites for students who are learning from home. All meals served will be free of charge, through the end of the sch...

Oregon, C.O. HS graduation rates rise amid tumultuous year affected by COVID-19 (Update: Adding video, comments from school officials) Nearly all tri-county high schools show an increase in graduation rates BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Despite a number of major COVID-19-related changes to last year's school year, students and schools still found ways to increase graduation rates. Four out of the five high schools in Bend-La Pine Schools reported an increase in graduation rates. The Bend Tech Academy at Marshall had its graduation rate increase 16.5% to nearly 63%. La Pine High rose about 6.5%, whi...