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New preschool programs Presidential scandal›
Iu Bend
Afternearly a century, Warren G. Harding’s scandal is resur› rected. But it’s also a chanceto re-examine his legacy.A3
Pine Schools will offer half-day preschool five days aweekat Bear CreekElementary School for about 32 students. Families liv› ing in the boundaries of high-poverty ele› mentary schools will be invited to havetheir children considered for the program, though students will not be selected basedon family income. Instead selection will be based on school readiness.
Cuba Secretary of state needles country on human rights as U.S.Embassy re› opens in Havana.A2
And a Webexclusive› The federal government is selling an island in Long Island Sound, but advocates fear an impact on the ecosystem. bentlbulletin.curn/extrns
EDITOR'5CHOICE
Gulf eats away at
Louisiana’s
coastline By Cain Burdeau The Associated Press
DELACROIX, La.›
Rocky Morales is watching his small Louisiana town
HB 3380 This session lawmakers approved aplanto create anew preschool program beginning in 2016
Bend-La
13,000
a kindergarten readiness program at Ochoco Elementary School in Prineville.
PRINEVILLE P i c ture b ook Oregon beginning this school year, at the ready, kindergarten teacher education officials are setting their
sights on the younger children, with preschool programs that prepare them for kindergarten and beyond and partnerships that bring districts and preschool providers together to
to read, she paused to remind chil›
learnfrom each other.
expands that to include gun sales between private parties. Vocal critics maintain
the law is unenforceable, including some in law enforcement, who say they won’t assist the state in investigating potential violations of the new law.
Number of Oregon children whowould qualify for the new program.
Oregon State Police re›
who did not. It’s not that they are
ported delays in the back› ground check system that
1,500
week program off ered by the Crook smarter; they are more comfortable County School District this summer in the classroom and more ready to for incoming kindergartners, a sort learn. "We know that it’s not in debate of prolonged orientation meant to getchildren ready forthe classroom. anymore that early intervention is Now in its second year, the program really important, and we consider is funded through a grant from the (preschool) an early intervention," Oregon Community Foundation. said Lora Nordquist, assistant super› Programs like these are part of a intendent of elementary education at larger effort by local school districts Bend-La Pine Schools, which will be› to reach younger students. With full› gin offering preschool this fall. day kindergarten the standard in See Kindergarten /A4
it says were unrelated to
Based on funding projections, this is the maximum number of preschool students served by the new
increased workload from a higher volume of back› ground checks. See Law/A5
program.
Iowa’s fair: a political rite
Source: Oregon Department of Education
of Delacroix slowly melt into the water. The woods
where he played hide-and› seek as a boy are gone. It’s all water and mud back there now. So, too, is
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By Sarah Kaplan
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muskrat, otter and mink.
Many of the fishermen who once lived here his
The Washington Post
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You can thank the man who gets blamed for so many other things: Herbert
friends and relatives›
have disappeared as well, fleeing behind the levees protecting New Orleans out of fear one more hur›
With much
and at stores. The new law
45,000
dren: sit still, sit up, keep your hands Smith said she can tell the students to yourself. who went to preschool from those This was the last day of a two›
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fanfare and some logistical hiccups, Oregon’s near-uni› versal gun background check law took effect this week. Background checks were already required for gun sales at gun shows
Families that make up to this percent of the federal poverty line can sendtheir 3- and 4-year-old children to the new preschool program
By AbbySpegman •The Bulletin
Ashley Smith looked out into a sea of wiggling, giggling bodies. "I know you’ re ready when you’ re sitting criss-cross applesauce, spoons in your bowl," she said. As she started
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Barby Martin, preschool coordinator, plays a game teaching letters to children in
In Redmond› Redmond School District will offer pre› school in Terrebonne and Tumalo, which will charge tuition, while Vern Patrick Elementary School in Redmond will have a free Title I preschool class for low-income families. In Terre› bonne, students will be in a classroom with children with disabili› ties already receiving preschool services through High Desert Education Service District. There arestill seats available for the program in Tumalo, which runs three days a week andcosts $200 per student per month.
By Taylor W. Anderson and Ted Shoreck
Number of Oregon children who have accessto the existing HeadStart program.
Hoover. It was the summer of 1954, and a heated race to›
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ward the midterm elections was already underway.
ricane will send the rest of Delacroix into the sea.
President Dwight D. Eisen›
Ten years after Hurri› cane Katrina ravaged the
(
Gulf Coast killing more than 1,830 people and causing more than $150
hower had just announced he would be making an ap› pearance at the Iowa State Fair, alongside his prede›
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cessor and Iowa’s native
son, Herbert Hoover. In recognition of the
billion in damage in the na›
tion’s costliest disaster›
New Orleans has been for›
current and erstwhile
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tified by a new $14.5 billion flood protection system.
president’s appearance, the fair’s organizers an›
But outside the iconic city,
nounced that they would
efforts have lagged to pro› tect small towns and villag› es losing land every year to erosion. And as that land buffer disappears, New Or›
eliminate the admission fee to the annual agricultural spectacle for the duration
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leans itself becomes more
of the speech. But not ev› eryone was elated at the
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idea that Iowans could sud›
vulnerable. In the past century, more
Kindergarten teacher Ashley Smith reads a book aloud to a group of incoming kindergartners at Ochoco Elementary School in
denly attend the fair
Prinevllle last week. The program helps get the kids ready for the classroom, and Smith says it’s clear which students attended
than 1,880 square miles of
preschool
see two famous Republi› cans for free. See Fair /A5
they are more prepared end comfortable ln the environment.
Louisiana land has turned into open water an area
and
nearly the size of Dela›
ware. And the loss con› tinues, with an average 17 square miles disappearing annually, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. See Coastline /A4
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