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July 17, 2025
Camas Education Association members walk out of Camas High School on Sept. 7, 2023, after voting to approve a new contract with the Camas School District. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian files)

Camas schools, teachers reach tentative deal

Camas teachers seem likely to avoid a repeat of the summer of 2023, when stalled contract negotiations led to the Camas School District’s first-ever teachers’ strike and delayed the start of the 2023-24 school year by nearly two weeks.

July 17, 2025
Washougal High School rising senior Nethuka Hiddoga Gamage, center, flanked by rising sophomore Olivia Alvarez, left, and rising senior Joselyn Guajardo, speaks during a community town hall, presented by the Unite! Washougal Community Coalition, at Washougal High School on June 30. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Club examines substance misuse in city

Members of Unite! Washougal Community Coalition’s Washougal High School Ambassadors club love Washougal and believe in the city’s potential but hope that local leaders and community members can come together to reduce substance abuse and other activities that they feel are damaging their cherished hometown.

July 3, 2025
The Camas School District Zellerbach Administration Center is pictured April 15, 2020. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)

Camas schools on verge of balancing ‘25-26 budget

Having just completed one of the largest budget reductions in the Camas School District’s recent history, district leaders say they are on the verge of achieving a balanced 2025-26 budget and bringing the district’s reserve funds back to a more sustainable level.

June 5, 2025
Discovery High School students gather in the east commons area of their project-based learning high school in Camas on Thursday afternoon, May 22. To make up for a $13 million revenue shortfall, the Camas School District is merging its two project-based learning schools, bringing Odyssey Middle School students and staff into the adjacent Discovery High School building this fall to create the district’s first 6-12 school. (Photos by Amanda Cowan/The Columbian)

Despite objections, Discovery, Odyssey to share one campus

There are still a few kinks to work out and likely a few worried students to convince, but the Camas School District’s plan to merge its project-based learning middle and high schools into one building seems to have found a path forward that quells most, if not all, of the concerns raised earlier this year when the district first announced the creation of its first 6-12 school.

June 5, 2025
From left to right, Tracey MacLachlan, Sadie McKenzie, Superintendent Aaron Hansen, Wendy Morrill and Connor McCroskey hold a State Recognized School banner during a Washougal School Board meeting May 27. (Contributed by the Washougal School District)

Camas, Washougal schools feted for progress

Twenty-one Clark County schools have been honored by the Washington School Recognition Program for their work in closing opportunity gaps and supporting students’ growth and academic achievement during the 2023-24 school year.

May 29, 2025
Washougal High School student Jacob Dillie uses the school’s new forklift simulator during a class session on Thursday, May 22, 2025. (Contributed by the Washougal School District)

Students, Port of Camas-Washougal team up

A group of Washougal High School students is diligently preparing for an upcoming forklift certification examination with the help of a newly purchased simulator, installed in the school’s construction technology classroom May 15.