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Camas School Board hears update on district’s ‘choice schools’

Nearly one year after outcry over budget cuts and school mergers, Camas’ three choice high schools are full, thriving

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Discovery High School students (from left to right) Jax Goetzen, Angel Harp, Zimri Baxter and Hannah Cuffel-Leathers gather at a booth on the corner of Northeast Fourth Avenue and Northeast Cedar Street in downtown Camas during the Downtown Camas Association's First Friday event on April 7, 2023. The students are calling for the Camas School District to reconsider budget cuts that will impact their project-based learning high school. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

It has been nine months since Camas students, staff and families flooded Camas School Board meetings in the spring of 2023 to support their unique “choice schools” in the wake of the district’s announced budget cuts and Discovery High School students participated in a planned walk-out the day before their 2022-23 spring break to protest the district’s plan to unify the project-based learning Discover High with the remote K-12 Camas Connect Academy (CCA).

This week, Camas School Board members heard how those choice schools — which include CCA, Discovery, Hayes Freedom High School and the project-based learning (PBL) Odyssey Middle School — are fairing during the 2023-24 school year.

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