CB school board has new negotiating team
The Coos Bay School District is going back to the negotiating table with its teachers next week, though its team will be slightly different. Former school board members Kathy Murray and Don Blom ended their tenures on the school board last month. The...
 0.8K - Jul. 16, 2009; scored 556.0 Talks lag with union
The Coos Bay School District is going down to the wire with its teachers union over a new contract. The two sides haven't met since June 2, and they won't get back together until July 20, after the existing contract expires. Salaries have been a key ...
3.2K - Jun. 24, 2009; scored 1000.0 Committee approves Coos Bay school budget
COOS BAY - Marshfield High School academic activities will be completely funded next year, but the district will downsize sports programs. The school district's contingency fund will be a little lighter, too, and there will be new management of the c...
6.5K - Jun. 5, 2009; scored 556.0 Committee approves Coos Bay school budget
COOS BAY - Marshfield High School academic activities will be completely funded next year, but the district will downsize sports programs. The school district's contingency fund will be a little lighter, too, and there will be new management of the c...
3.9K - Jun. 4, 2009; scored 556.0 Coos Bay schools postpone new budget
COOS BAY - Coos Bay school officials have postponed approving a 2009-10 budget to reconsider cuts to extracurricular programs. The delay was prompted in part by the yearbook, forensics and newspaper advisors defending their programs as well as the dr...
4.9K - May. 28, 2009; scored 556.0 District, teachers deadlock
COOS BAY - Even with a new bargaining format, Coos Bay school officials remain at odds with the district's teachers over a contract for next school year. Leaders from the teachers union met with school board members and administrators in an open meet...
4.5K - May. 13, 2009; scored 556.0 Now can we discuss consolidation?
North Bend school officials deserved some of the criticism they heard this week. By preparing budget cut proposals in private, rather than publicly sharing their angst, as Coos Bay did, they excluded employees and taxpayers from part of the conversat...
2.4K - Apr. 30, 2009; scored 717.0 Solving the shortfalls
COOS BAY - James Moore has a sense for what the Coos Bay School District is going through. A lumber mill worker with Georgia-Pacific, Moore has seen companies shutter their operations over the years, leaving employees uncertain about their futures. T...
4.0K - Apr. 22, 2009; scored 556.0 Coos Bay looks to union for help to avoid cuts
COOS BAY - At least 16 teachers' futures in local classrooms could be decided by negotiations between Coos Bay schools and their teachers' union. Superintendent Bob De La Vergne unveiled a preliminary plan Friday that would cut 26 positions, includi...
3.9K - Apr. 14, 2009; scored 556.0 The C word: consolidation
Cutting school days. Eliminating funding for sports teams. Converting to a four-day school week. Instituting salary cuts. Laying off employees. Local school districts are scrambling to balance budgets with a variety of unpleasant options, as the econ...
5.2K - Feb. 7, 2009; scored 1000.0 Bigger cuts could slam Coos Bay schools
COOS BAY Local schools are bracing for more bad news from Salem. The Coos Bay School District has a $400,000 shortfall for this year, but officials think that may grow to more than $1 million. Earlier this week, the state issued a...
4.9K - Jan. 23, 2009; scored 556.0 Coos Bay shifts school principals
Some of the most visible employees in the Coos Bay School District are going to have new offices next fall. Superintendent Bob De La Vergne tapped Athletic Director Greg Mulkey to take over as principal at Marshfield High School, while Jon Mishra wil...
3.7K - Jan. 13, 2009; scored 717.0 Coos Bay eyes four-day school week
COOS BAY The Coos Bay School Board got its first look at a variety of cost-cutting measures to help balance its books in light of the souring economy. None was very popular. The ideas included eliminating school days, eliminating the athletic budge...
3.3K - Jan. 13, 2009; scored 556.0 Association honors Coos Bay school officials
Coos Bay School District board members received an Oregon School Boards Association Leadership Institute award at the OSBA annual convention earlier this winter, a press release said. Board members earned the third-year outstanding board achievement ...
1.3K - Jan. 10, 2009; scored 556.0 Coos Bay schools may shuffle kids
COOS BAY Coos Bay school officials are considering a plan to reconfigure the district s buildings, though it is far from a done deal. If implemented, Madison and Blossom Gulch elementary schools would teach students in kindergarten, first and secon...
5.3K - Nov. 25, 2008; scored 556.0 | 
