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Branching out, state plans Sisters car-charging station By Erik Hidle The Bulletin
An electric vehicle charging station to be installed in Sisters next year marks the start of Oregon’s eastward push with electric freeways.
The state is preparing to place 22 charging stations for electric cars across Oregon through a $2 million federal grant. The project specifically looks to branch out from Interstate 5, which currently has an abundance of charging
stations between Portland and Ashland. The Sisters station, currently being considered for two locations in town, will be one of the easternmost locations. Hood River will also receive a station
along Interstate 84. The Sisters station will be the only one the state will install in Central Oregon. The town was chosen over Bend and Redmond primarily due to distance. See Electric / A7
• Classroom cuts: Deschutes County’s juvenile detention center trims and consolidates
CROOK COUNTY
Schools aim young to teach English By Duffie Taylor The Bulletin
In a state Department of Education report released Tuesday, Crook County was the only Central Oregon school district to meet federal and state standards for students in English Language Development programs. Cathy Fall, an English language development teacher at Ochoco Elementary School, said the district’s success in this area has a lot to do with a push made by the district in 2006 to emphasize English proficiency in its youngest students. Currently, Fall said, the district has about 100 English language learners, or ELL students, most of whom attend Ochoco Elementary. That number has shrunk in recent years due to a large number of students becoming proficient in English and leaving the program. “We’re exiting students at a faster rate than we’re entering them into the program,” Fall said. Since 2006, the school has placed certified ELD teachers at the school, whereas before they were only present at middle and high school levels. “Since we were able to make that change, that’s when we really started improving,” she said. See English / A5
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A classroom sits empty at the Deschutes County juvenile detention center, where managers consolidated two classes into one to deal with a funding cut that forced a reduction in teacher hours.
Amid grand resorts, a town ski hill suffers By Kirk Johnson New York Times News Service
Where the routine is key By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
Earlier this year, Deschutes County’s juvenile detention center faced a large cut in education funding. School runs year-round at the Bend facility, and one way to absorb the cut would be to cancel classes for two months. Managers didn’t want to do that, and with the help of teachers and staff, they came up with a way to preserve class time and make the
daily routine a bit more normal for young offenders. The state cut spending on education for incarcerated youths by 25 percent in the current two-year budget to help close a budget shortfall, according to the Oregon Department of Education. By contrast, the state school fund budget remained flat and the Department of Education’s operations budget was cut 5.8 percent, said Crystal Greene, public affairs manager for the department.
In Deschutes County, the cuts are even worse than those statewide. Education funding for the local juvenile detention center was cut by 44 percent, and two teachers who instruct juvenile offenders were reduced to part-time in July. In response, managers at the detention center combined two classes into one and moved the classroom to a different cell unit, so youths have to leave their living units each day to attend school. See Juvenile / A5
JACKSON, Wyo. — The ski slope that rises up the mountain just off downtown, called Snow King, dates from the 1930s, when this corner of the West all but folded up in winter, isolated and dark, and local people needed something to do. Getting rich from the snows that fall early and deep on the edge of the Teton Range in western Wyoming did not factor in. “It was never meant to make money,” said Bill Ashley, 89, who owned and ran the Snow King ski school for many years and met his wife, Mary, at the top of the mountain in the early 1950s. “It was meant to be for the town.” The big ski areas that came later — Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Grand Targhee — made winter tourism big business and Jackson Hole a winter destination. See Ski hills / A7
A world that is aging, sluggish and stubborn By David Leonhardt New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — With struggling Greece just agreeing to form a government to try to en-
force harsh austerity ANALYSIS then a couple of steps measures onto a weary backward. Washington, public, Europe is in usual meanwhile, is hoping form, taking a couple of steps to- that the latest deficit-reduction ward solving its fiscal crisis and committee in Congress can suc-
ceed where others have failed. This cycle of bureaucracy and gridlock has been repeating itself for months now. See Economy / A4
David Swift / New York Times News Service
A ticket office at the base of Wyoming Snow King Mountain, which dates from the 1930s.
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Correction Stories headlined “Oregon’s a hot spot for energy potential” and “Newberry drilling: Not the same risks as ‘fracking,’” which appeared Sunday, Nov. 6, on Page A1, gave an incorrect location for geothermal experimentation by Seattle-based AltaRock Energy, Inc. The project is on Deschutes National Forest land adjacent to Newberry National Volcanic Monument. The Bulletin regrets the error.
TOP NEWS GREECE: PM, opposition reach power-sharing deal, A3 IRAN: U.S. deferring to nuclear inspectors, A3