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Enterprise School District Superintendent Brad Royse is bracing for trouble. Royse said a nationwide teacher shortage could have an impact on his school district, which is not currently having difficulty filling teaching positions with quality educators, something Royse knows could soon change. "I keep hearing that there is a teacher shortage and anticipate it coming our way but it hasn't," Royse said. The shortage is becoming so bad nationwide that ¹ vada's Legislature approved a bill three months ago providing millions of dollars for incentives to attract teachers, accordingto aJune 8 article in the Las Vegas Sun. In California, emergency teaching permits are beingissued to help schools deal with SeeTeachers / Page 5A
demand Ray Brown, the coordinator of EOU's master of arts in teaching program, said 90 percent of the EOU students who graduated this year with an MAT in secondary education have landed teaching jobs.
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Cycle Oregon participants will spin through the roaring canyons, rolling hills, jagged peaks and fertile farmland of Northeast Oregon and Western Idaho, which has been threatened by wildfires raging this summer. About 2,200 bicyclists from Oregon, 48 other states and 9 countries will take to the roadsofruralNortheastern Oregon starting Saturday as part of Cycle Oregon's weeklong ride. For 28 years, Cycle Oregon has led bicycle adventures through some of the most SeeRiders / Page 5A
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