Firm hired for Mac superintendent search
The McMinnville School Board on Wednesday hired McPherson & Jacobsen, LLC, Consultants to help it find an interim superintendent to lead McMinnville schools in the 2025-26 school year. Representatives ...
Mac school budget proposal manages shortfall without cutting teachers
McMinnville schools, like those across the state and nation, will be short of funding to retain current services next year, district officials told the budget committee Wednesday. But they said they are ...
Steffanie Frost to leave McMinnville School District
Steffanie Frost, human resources director and current acting superintendent of the McMinnville School District, plans to leave the district at the end of the school year. She has accepted a job as chief ...
School board considering search firms
McMinnville School Board members on Friday confirmed that they will do an open search for an interim superintendent, in addition to a similar search for someone to fill the position permanently. Members ...
School board to meet Friday, Wednesday
McMinnville School Board members will meet in special session at 3 p.m. Friday to discuss criteria in their search for an interim superintendent, as well as which search firm they will hire to help find ...
Chemeketa bond up for vote
Chemeketa Community College is seeking a $140 million bond for improvements throughout the regional system, which includes the Yamhill Valley Campus in McMinnville. Voters will decide the issue in the ...
Amity High prepares for 100th May Day celebration
Amity High School students will perform a traditional maypole dance and numerous musical and dance numbers at 7 p.m. Friday, May 2, at the school’s 100th annual May Day Celebration. The free event ...
School board to choose firm to help with interim search
The McMinnville School Board will hold two special meetings to select a firm to help it hire an interim superintendent for the 2025-26 school year. The board fired former leader Debbie Brockett without ...
New grant-funded PE program teaches kindergartners essential cycling skills
Kindergartners strapped on helmets and headed to the gym for a special type of P.E. class: learning and practicing riding bicycles. The children in Kelsey Davison’s class lined up across the Memorial ...
Palacios challenges incumbent Albright for Dayton School Board
Marty Palacios and incumbent Kraig Albright are vying for Position 1 on the Dayton School Board in the May 20 election. Also running are Roger Webb and incumbent Terri Paysinger for the Position 7 seat, ...
Paysinger, Webb seek Dayton School Board seat
Roger Webb is challenging incumbent Theresa “Terri” Paysinger for the Position 7 seat on the Dayton School Board in the May 20 election. Also running are incumbent Kraig Albright and Marty ...
'We need better': Sheridan school leaders detail repairs, updates that would come with bond passage
The detached gym at Sheridan’s Faulconer-Chapman School is so humid that cotton candy reportedly melted at one of the fall festivals, Superintendent Dorie Vickery said on a recent tour of the school ...
A test for the taste buds
‘Delicious!” said Abigail Park, taking a second helping of kale Caesar salad she and her second-grade classmates had just helped prepare. “Not for me,” Emerson Starr and some others ...
MSD budget work session Wednesday
McMinnville School District’s budget committee, comprised of the seven school board members and seven other citizens, will hold its initial meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, to prepare for ...
Candidates vie for Sheridan School Board
Sheridan School District has four candidates vying for Position 1 and 5, which will be on the May 20 ballot. Natalya Ables and Susan Looby are running for Position 1. Raymond Watkins and Gwen Fink filed ...
