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February 25, 2021
Camas School Board members (clockwise from upper left) Corey McEnry and Doug Quinn, board president Tracey Malone and board member Erika Cox discuss school reopenings at a Feb. 22, 2021, Camas school board meeting. The board members met in-person, with face coverings, at the school district offices, and the meeting was available via Zoom for members of the public. (Screenshot by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas school board pauses reopenings, gives staff time to transition

On Monday, Feb. 22, just one week before Camas elementary students were scheduled to return to full classrooms, four days a week, and high-schoolers would have entered a hybrid schedule with twice-weekly in-person classes, the Camas School Board agreed to pause the district’s school reopening rollout to give teachers, staff and families more time to adjust to the swift transitions.

February 18, 2021

Camas School District voters pass replacement levies

With only about 200 ballots left to count in the Feb. 9 Special Election, Camas School District voters have passed two replacement levies that make up nearly 20 percent of the district’s overall funding.

February 11, 2021
Washougal High School student Briahna Ruth (right) delivers a report to the Washougal School District board of directors during an October 2019 meeting at Canyon Creek Middle School. Washougal High School principal Sheree Clark is planning to relaunch the school's student representative program for the 2021-22 school year. (Post-Record file photo)

Rethinking student-rep selection process

Washougal High School leaders were supposed to begin the process of selecting the school’s student representatives to the Washougal School District board of directors for the 2020-21 school year in March 2020.

February 11, 2021
Kindergarten teacher Marilyn Canfield (left) leads students at Helen Baller Elementary School in Camas on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. (Contributed photo by Doreen McKercher, courtesy of Camas School District)

As COVID-19 cases drop, Camas ramps up in-person learning

With Clark County COVID-19 rates falling from “high” to “moderate” over the past two weeks, the Camas School District is continuing to ramp up its school reopenings and send more students back to the classroom.

February 9, 2021
Drivers pass by signs calling for voters to cast

Camas school levies are passing

Camas School District voters are passing two replacement levies tonight, in an election local school boosters have called “critical” to the future of Camas schools.  With…

January 28, 2021
Cape Horn-Skye Elementary School first-grade teacher Nichol Yung leads an in-person class on Jan. 19, 2021. The Washougal School District welcomed students in first through fifth grades back to the district's four elementary schools for limited in-person classes, beginning Jan. 19. (Contributed photo courtesy of Rene Carroll)

Washougal begins hybrid model; elementary students head back to class

As Washougal School District Superintendent Mary Templeton walked from the parking lot to the front entrance of Gause Elementary School shortly before 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 19, a small group of children lined up in front of a physical education teacher near the playground at the back of the building.