Obama coaxes states to change with school dollars
WASHINGTON One year after his election, President Barack Obama is coaxing states across the country to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they pursue his vision for school reform. Obama is visiting Wisconsin, where lawmakers are po...
 4.0K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 817.0 Georgiana Gamble Smithers
A celebration of life will be held for Georgiana Gamble Smithers, 81, of Coos Bay, at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Fourth and Highland in Coos Bay. The service and sacrament will be officiated by the Rev. Stephen Tyson...
4.2K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 187.0 Joseph Larry Jackson
Joseph Larry Jackson Sept. 24, 1938 Oct. 17, 2009 A public visitation will be held for Joseph L. Jackson, 71, of Coos Bay, from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 30, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. A graveside service with military honors provid...
1.3K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 98.0 Joseph Larry Jackson
Joseph Larry Jackson Sept. 24, 1938 Oct. 17, 2009 A public visitation will be held for Joseph L. Jackson, 71, of Coos Bay, from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 30, at Coos Bay Chapel, 685 Anderson Ave. A graveside service with military honors provid...
1.3K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 98.0 Cruising undersea - virtually
What are some of the interesting things you have seen so far? asked a student from Lighthouse Charter School in North Bend. From aboard a 200-foot research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, GK-12 fellow Kira Triebergs posted her answer online. She liste...
3.8K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 147.0 State police look for answers in bus crash
BOISE, Idaho (AP) State Police say they are piecing together information to understand just how a bus carrying a Utah high school band veered off a southeastern Idaho interstate, killing a 33-year-old band teacher and injuring dozens of student mus...
1.1K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 127.0 NASA looks for moon ice
WASHINGTON Take that, moon! NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a pr...
4.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 127.0 Obama pushes for more school time
WASHINGTON Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way. Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around...
6.7K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 348.0 Bandon loses students
BANDON The Bandon School District will face another dent in funding, following this year s painful budget cuts. To blame is declining enrollment. This month, there are 751 students in the district. That s 26 fewer students than when the school year...
2.0K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 197.0 Board will present charter plan
The soon-to-be Reedsport Community Charter School s board of directors has created a plan for operating Reedsport Junior/Senior High School when it becomes a charter school. The board will present its plan to the community at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sep...
1.2K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 719.0 Unenforced bullying laws give kids scant protection
ATLANTA Laws meant to rein in schoolyard bullying rarely if ever do that since adults generally don t enforce them, according to an Associated Press review, and several students recent suicides have parents and advocates calling for tougher measur...
7.5K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 278.0 Sports Briefs: Rookie signs with Blazers before surgery
PORTLAND The Trail Blazers signed rookie Jeff Pendergraph a day before the forward was set to have hip surgery. Terms of the deal Tuesday were not disclosed. The team says Pendergraph is scheduled for surgery today to correct a left hip impingement...
4.2K - Sep. 9, 2009; scored 147.0 Don't waste this crisis
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously proclaimed soon after Barack Obama was elected. As students and teachers head back to school, they are learning what he meant. The Obama administration ...
3.1K - Sep. 8, 2009; scored 219.0 Rule leads to wealth of talent in Division II
ELLENSBURG, Wash. This is not how Matt Ah You s final season of college football was supposed to play out against Division II talent on a browning, wind-swept practice field pocked with dusty divots. This is a Division I linebacker, someone with ...
6.5K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 231.0 Oregon Outdoor Report: Umpqua River kicks off first derby of season
Chinook salmon fishing has remained strong in all local rivers. We are just starting to see a better catch inside the jetties in Winchester Bay and mooching on the bar at Charleston has also picked up. The large number of jacks has been the topic of ...
4.1K - Sep. 5, 2009; scored 127.0 Competition offers better schools
Earlier secretaries of education can only envy Arne Duncan, the current holder of that post. Under the department s Race to the Top competition, Duncan has a $5 billion discretionary fund to reward school districts that implement reforms e...
0.9K - Aug. 10, 2009; scored 147.0 Reunions
Marshfield Class of 1989 Marshfield High School Class of 1989 will hold a reunion Friday through Sunday, July 31 to Aug. 2. A no-host, informal gathering will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at the Coney Station in Coos Bay. On Saturday, a guided tour of t...
8.5K - Jul. 31, 2009; scored 258.0 Richard L. Harrington
An urnside service will be held for Richard L. Harrington, 61, of Coos Bay, at 11 a.m., Tuesday, July 28, at Lane Memorial Gardens, 5300 W. 11th Ave. in Eugene with Tobey Tennison officiating. A potluck will follow at Perkins Peninsula Park, 26647 Hi...
2.1K - Jul. 25, 2009; scored 98.0 Who comes first, children or teachers?
Who will Congress put first children or teachers unions? If any story this year deserved page 1 coverage but didn't get it it was Education Secretary Arne Duncan's challenging speech July 2 to the nation's largest teachers union. Perhaps the mo...
4.4K - Jul. 22, 2009; scored 248.0 Reunions
Marshfield High Class of 1951 Classmates of the Marshfield High School Class of 1951 are invited to attend a no-host pizza dinner at Abbey s Pizza on South Broadway, Coos Bay at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14. A no-host picnic will be held at 11 a.m. on Satu...
5.3K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 205.0 | 
