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West Albany High School Student Arrested — Manufacture and Possession of a Destructive Device

On Thursday, May 23, 2013, at about 10:26 pm, Albany Police Investigators took 17-year-old Albany resident Grant Alan Acord into custody and lodged him at the Linn Benton Juvenile Detention Facility on the following charges:

   • Possession of a Destructive Device (2 counts).
   • Manufacture of a Destructive Device (2 counts).

Grant Acord, a WAHS student, was taken into custody without incident at his residence in the 2400 block of NW Violet Street. This investigation began after the Albany Police Department received information that associated Grant Acord with manufacturing a destructive device with the intent of detonating it at a school.

   Click here to read news release from Albany Police
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Online Instruction School District To Expand Online Instruction

This year, the Greater Albany School District began a pilot program to offer online instruction to students. The program initially began with just 25 students and was intended to attract Albany area students who were either homeschool or were participating in other online instructional programs.
   The program proved to be successful and the district would like to expand the offerings. The School Board, at its May 13 meeting, directed staff to proceed with a contract with "K12.com" to expand the District's online program in the coming year.

    Read more from the May14, 2013, Education Update
    View the Education Update archive

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School Funding Advocacy

School Funding Advocacy

Governor Kitzhaber and the Oregon Legislature are considering the state budget for the 2013-15 Biennium and must carefully consider each expenditure against competing priorities. The Governor, in his proposed budget, recommended appropriating $6.15 Billion for the State School Fund for the 2013-15 fiscal year. The two houses of the Legislature as considering what has been identified as the Co-Chair's Budget which proposes $6.55 Billion for the State School Fund during the same period.

While it is still too soon to known what the 2013-15 budget will be, the attachment below identifies how the potential funding levels would impact the Greater Albany School District.  

    View the School Funding Advocacy document.
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Achievement Compacts and 40/40/20 Update

    Keeping up with the changes in education can be confusing. Schools everywhere have been working with intensity and speed to Oregon Diploma, Achievement Compacts and 40/40/20 Updateclose what have been termed "achievement gaps." These gaps have been variously defined as the differences between minority and white students' standardized test scores, between disabled and mainstream students, the gap in standardized test scores between students in the United States and their counterparts in other developed countries.
    Here is a short summary of events affecting the Greater Albany School District journey toward closing these various "gaps" as measured in local schools.

     Read more from the April 2013 newsletter