Kids

The board rejected the resolution originally late last month and decided to revisit it in March. The vote was met with strong pushback from staff, families and students.

Millions of grandparents across the country are being pushed into parenthood again. A new peer support group in Salem helps them through it.

Kids Unlimited began with one after school program in 1998. It now serves nearly every public school in Medford and runs its own charter school for underserved communities.

Albina Head Start is suing the federal agency that administers the Head Start program for low-income infants and children.

The Courageous Kids program offers children the semblance of a carefree camp experience even while they’re working through grief.

Ask almost anyone from around Salem about Awesome 3000, and they’ve likely either participated, volunteered, or supported someone who did. This year, more than 2,000 kids took part.

Dolly Parton visited Tacoma Tuesday to celebrate the statewide expansion of her Imagination Library in Washington state, which provides free books to kids.

It’s mullet mania across the Northwest. Kids and adults from Winthrop, Washington, to Junction City, Oregon, are showing off their style and bold haircuts to raise money for Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors.

Oregon’s overall school-age vaccination rate lags the national average. Pop-up clinics help kids to catch up with required shots before the Feb. 15 deadline.

How do you use parks? Also, a Portland bookstore hosts Drag Queen Story Time, and the community court program in Eugene tries to help people arrested for crimes associated with homelessness.