Education
Majalise Tolan, secondary director for the Lincoln County School District, met recently with other Coalition of Oregon School Administrators and Sen. Jeff Merkley, Rep. Kurt Schrader, Rep. Cliff Bentz and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. to ask for resources to address the twin student mental health and educator shortage crises.
On Oregon's 163rd birthday, U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici fielded questions on topics ranging from the arts and school lunch to sex education and mask mandates at a virtual meeting with Warrenton High School students.
Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (WA-08) and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) are reintroducing the Healthy Meal Time Act to reduce food waste in schools and further ensure that kids have the time to eat a proper meal.
The school board's actions received further admonishment throughout August, along with threats of legal trouble. The Newberg City Council voted 6-1 to affirm Roger's letter opposing the school board's actions. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and the Legislature's House Democratic Caucus shared similar sentiments.
"The pandemic has made it really challenging to be a health care worker right now," said Kyla Siemens, who is in her second year studying to be a physician assistant at Pacific University's Hillsboro campus. She was one of three students involved in a panel discussion Wednesday with U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, who shares Siemens' concern that a variety of factors will discourage people from entering the health care industry.
Bonamici spoke to students entering the health care field amid a global pandemic.
Provisions to standardize food date labeling were also included in Rep. Pingree's Agriculture Resilience Act, which was reintroduced in April 2021. Additionally, in September, Reps. Pingree and Newhouse, along with Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon) reintroduced the School Food Recovery Act, which would create a new program at the USDA to support schools working on food waste reduction projects.