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Category Archive: features

ACA reacts to Mandalorian

Elinore Harris The Charter News 2/14/21 Spoiler Alert: Stay away from this article if you haven’t seen the […]

The Charter February 14, 2021 features, polls, Survey

I’m Bored

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Jack Taggart The Charter Features 5/16/20 At last. I had just finished my final Zoom meeting of the […]

rvaviator May 16, 2020 Archives, COVID-19, features

What ACA’s High Schoolers are Doing

Cheyenna Hall The Charter Features  5/11/2020 Students have been put in a difficult and trying situation along with […]

Shy Shy Hall May 11, 2020 Archives, COVID-19, features

NWEA Warns Of COVID Learning Slump

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Tazwell Brandabur The Charter Features 5/5/20 Educators worldwide have been scrambling to keep kids engaged and learning during […]

Tazwell Brandabur May 5, 2020 Archives, COVID-19, features

The Virus Is Just Half the Battle

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How COVID-19 will affect us economically

rvaviator May 4, 2020 Archives, features

The Effects COVID-19 and Technology are having on Schooling

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Jack Taggart The Charter News 4/01/20 Governments are meeting the spread of the novel virus, COVID-19, with many […]

rvaviator March 30, 2020 Archives, features

What COVID-19 Looks Like In Our Community

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Siena Geren  The Charter Features  3/20/20 COVID-19 is changing our public spaces inside and out. While people begin […]

sienaish March 20, 2020 Archives, COVID-19, features

Tough Love Grading Practices Produce Results

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Tazwell Brandabur The Charter Features 3/15/20 Teachers themselves determine how students are graded, creating a spectrum of severity […]

Tazwell Brandabur March 15, 2020 Archives, features

Milwaukie Declares Climate Emergency. Where Does Oregon City Stand?

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Tazwell Brandabur The Charter Features 3/15/20 “NOW BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City […]

Tazwell Brandabur March 15, 2020 Archives, features

The Other Side of Dyslexia

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Siena Geren  The Charter Features  3/11/20       In a typical classroom of 30 students there are […]

sienaish March 11, 2020 Archives, features

Border Wall Creates Unintended Consequences for Wildlife

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Madalena Larkins The Charter Features 2/20/20               Whether or not a wall […]

Madalena Larkins February 20, 2020 Archives, features

Do Relationships in High School Have Value?

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Haladar Wright  The Charter Features 1/28/20 In popular culture, high school is painted as a landscape full of […]

haladarwright January 28, 2020 Archives, featured, features

Live Action Disney Remakes

Chloe Lute The Charter Features 1/13/20 Over the past few years Disney has released a number of live-action […]

chloelute January 13, 2020 Archives, features

Excuses Used at School

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Cheyenna Hall  Featured News  12/20/2019 Teachers and students alike have heard many excuses at school. Even if they […]

Shy Shy Hall December 24, 2019 Archives, features

Is ACA Safe?

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Tazwell Brandabur The Charter Features 12/21/19 Charter schools have long been the center of an intense debate at […]

Tazwell Brandabur December 21, 2019 Archives, features

Inside The Charter Newsroom

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Madalena Larkins The Charter Features 12/20/19 The class of nine and their teacher, Michael Lancaster, gather in the […]

Madalena Larkins December 20, 2019 Archives, features

Sleep Is Affecting Students In More Ways Than We Thought

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While the teacher grabs some papers from a printer, students of Mr. Silwell’s Modern World History class seize the the opportunity to doze off for a few minutes.

rvaviator December 20, 2019 Archives, features

Beginning Band Class Created

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Haladar Wright The Charter News Feature 11/18/19 You may hear the musical sounds of wind instruments emanating from […]

haladarwright November 18, 2019 Archives, features, news

Jellyfish and Their Superpowers

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By Matthias Armstrong The Charter News 5/17/19 From their bloodless brainless bodies to their extreme ability to regenerate […]

Matthias Armstrong May 17, 2019 2016-2017 Opinions, Archives, features

Volunteer Hours

By Natalie Ramsey The Charter- 4/15/18 Volunteering is an important piece of ACA. It keeps the school safe […]

natalieramsey May 14, 2019 Archives, features

Goodbye ACA, Hello Singapore!

By Rylie Young The Charter News – 05/01/19 Expanding your horizons doesn’t mean moving to Singapore for everyone, […]

acaryliey May 6, 2019 Archives, featured, features, news

ACA Student Going to Costa Rica in Exchange Program

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By Sydney Starr The Charter Features – 5/2/19 Siena Geren, a 16 year-old ACA Sophomore, will be going […]

sydneystarr May 2, 2019 Archives, featured, features

Taco Time and the People of Crime

By Hailey Fox Charter Features – 04/10/19 “I use many of my experiences as an employee at Taco […]

haileyfox9 April 17, 2019 Archives, features

Jilene Modlin and Her Seamstress Endeavors

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By Matthias Armstrong The Charter News – 4/10/19 Her days of sewing zippers in Campfire Girls are over, […]

Matthias Armstrong April 10, 2019 Archives, features

Hercules Livens Up the Poetree

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By Matthias Armstrong The Charter News – 4/5/19 The Poetree has been given new “life” and decoration through […]

Matthias Armstrong April 10, 2019 Archives, featured, features, News Brief

ES meetings

Rachel Shulikov The Charter News – 3/18/2019 ACA is one of the only schools that has ES meetings. […]

rachelshulikov March 20, 2019 Archives, features

Meet the Autism Service Dogs Training at ACA

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By Sydney Starr The Charter Features – 3/11/19 You’ve likely seen two adorable white/golden dogs strutting around campus […]

sydneystarr March 11, 2019 Archives, featured, features

Tribute to Mark Silverman

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By Miriam Lee and Rylie Young The Charter News “We’re a giant jigsaw puzzle, with so many different […]

acaryliey March 4, 2019 Archives, editorial, features

An Evening of the Spoken Word

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By Natalie Ramsey                     The Charter Features – 2/1/19                           Recently, members of the Language Arts Committee have been […]

natalieramsey February 1, 2019 Archives, features

The National Honors Society at ACA

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By Matthias Armstrong The Charter News Feature – 1/23/19 What is the National Honors Society (NHS)? Many people […]

Matthias Armstrong January 31, 2019 Archives, features

Diana Brainerd Adopts a New Role at ACA

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By Miriam Lee The Charter News/Feature – 12/13/18 A rose by any other name is still a rose. […]

acaryliey January 26, 2019 Archives, features

ACA Student Saves Endangered Wildlife

By Rylie Young The Charter Features – 12/12/18 Milarae Rymsza, a sixth grade ACA student, is just twelve […]

acaryliey January 26, 2019 Archives, featured, features

How to Donate to ACA’s Library

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By Sydney Starr The Charter News Feature – 01/24/19 Like many of us, you may have boxes of […]

sydneystarr January 24, 2019 Archives, featured, features, news

Suzanne Edwards Brings Many Musical Skills to ACA

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Evalina Shulikov The Charter Feature- 12/12/18 This year, Suzanne Edwards has joined the team of ACA. She loves […]

evalinashulikov January 9, 2019 Archives, features

How Can ACA Benefit From Reading The Charter?

Journalism, many are divided upon what its use is and why we need it. Recently, there has been […]

alyssadiloreto January 8, 2019 Archives, features, opinions, Uncategorized

New ES, Jenna Friesen

Rachel Shulikov The Charter Feature – 12/17/2018 This year ACA has a new ES –Jenna Friesen. She came […]

rachelshulikov December 21, 2018 Archives, features

ACA Battles Animal Hunger Alongside F.I.D.O.

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By Matthias Armstrong The Charter News – 12/10/18 The volunteer-run organization FIDO is working vigorously to combat the […]

Matthias Armstrong December 20, 2018 Archives, features

The Shoes That Live

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By Sydney Starr The Charter Features – 12/14/18 Everyone at ACA has walked by them at least once, […]

sydneystarr December 14, 2018 Archives, featured, features

Senior Prank 2018

By Faith Burton Although the origin of senior pranks are unknown, we do know that they are prevalent […]

The Charter May 27, 2018 Archives, features

Special Olympics

       By. Taylor Younger          In the 1950’s and early 1960’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver saw how unjustly and […]

The Charter May 27, 2018 Archives, features

Oregon City Main Street Named One of Three 2018 Great American Main Streets

By Luke Burton, The Charter Feature News Oregon City’s Main Street named 2018 Great American Main Street, at […]

The Charter May 27, 2018 Archives, features

Discovering The Capes & Crowns Foundation

By RYLIE YOUNG On November 22nd, 2015, at 6 o’clock in the morning, 60,000 feet in the air, […]

The Charter May 27, 2018 Archives, features

Parkour to ACA

By Victor Heimbigner Parkour has changed the way students exercise for a while now and many students at […]

The Charter May 27, 2018 Archives, features

Gun Control Looking Forward

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The Charter Features By OLIVIA SILBERNAGEL Now that the media buzz surrounding the Florida shooting has faded almost […]

The Charter May 20, 2018 Archives, features

Bullying

The Charter Features By SAMANTHA RANDS   What is bullying? “Bullying abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone […]

The Charter May 20, 2018 Archives, features

Story about our Best

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By Taylor Younger, The Charter Features Joy Best is one of our math teachers here at Alliance Charter […]

The Charter May 4, 2018 Archives, features

Behind the scenes of Mrs. Heppner

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Mrs. Heppner is beloved by teachers and students alike. She travels around the world to judge gymnastic events, […]

The Charter May 4, 2018 Archives, features

Any music changes?     

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By Taylor Younger    Mr. Cheskin can’t tell us what classes are going to be offered next school year […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

Clubs and Electives

BY CONSTANTINE VAN SICKLE 4/14/2018 Electives and Clubs are heading your way for the 2018-2019 Alliance Charter Academy […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

Science and Technology offerings at ACA in 2018-2019  

By Elizabeth Tarsia    Here at Alliance Charter Academy we offer many classes and among those many classes are […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

ACA Admin team makes next year’s schedule

By COLIN HUGHES The process of making a master schedule and a course catalog for a school is […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

New Languages Coming to ACA?

By LUKE BURTON Throughout the years ACA has offered a variety of languages and english language arts (ELA) […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

Social Studies in the Future

The new course catalog is coming soon, allowing kids to finally learn about the new classes next year. […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

ACA MATH

Special Edition- By Kenzie It’s almost time to choose students classes for next year! The math department offers […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

ACA ART & DRAMA

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 Special Edition – By Rylie Young Art Explorers, Drawing and Printmaking, Drama Club, and Illustration Storytelling; these are […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

Physical Education/ Health of 2018-2019 classes

By VICTOR HEIMBIGNER Physical Education is wanted by most students and is required to graduate.  P.E. is a […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

PAT Fundraisers

By SAMANTHA RANDS The PAT puts on many fundraisers to support ACA, for example the rummage sale, plant […]

The Charter April 30, 2018 Archives, features

ACA and the GSA

By Olivia Silbernagel, The Charter Features The Gay Straight Alliance/Gender and Sexuality Awareness (GSA) club at ACA has had […]

The Charter March 1, 2018 Archives, features

Alumni form Dreadlight

By Kenzie Waterman, The Charter Features Alliance Charter Academy has been around for eleven years now and many […]

The Charter February 1, 2018 Archives, features

Christian Students United

By: Rylie Young Christian Students United, or CSU, is a club here at our school that meet on […]

The Charter February 1, 2018 Archives, features

Luke The Ballerino

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By Faith Burton, The Charter Features Luke Burton, teenager, skateboarder, pre-professional guitarist and something that may surprise many, […]

The Charter January 31, 2018 Archives, features

Men’s Fashion Today

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Luke Burton, The Charter Feature Fashion is an ever expanding part of this world we live in. There […]

The Charter January 31, 2018 Archives, features, Uncategorized

Building Our Airplane While We’re Flying: A History of Our Homeschool-school

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By Nicole Engelke The Charter Feature Alliance Charter Academy (ACA) is a unique school for equally unique students […]

The Charter January 29, 2018 Archives, features

ACA Garden: Success Story

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By Rylie Young Two years ago, the idea of Alliance Charter Academy having a school garden grew, and […]

The Charter January 29, 2018 Archives, features

The Cantrell of Alliance Charter Academy

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By Elizabeth Tarsia Kathleen Mixer-Cantrell, a greatly appreciated Educational Specialist (ES) and staff member. Cantrell has been working […]

The Charter January 27, 2018 Archives, features

ACA Through The Ages

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  By Samantha Rands and Olivia Silbernagel We interviewed six students at ACA questions about their futures, school, and […]

The Charter January 22, 2018 Archives, features

Genuine, Caring, and Humorous

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By Rylie Young Genuine, caring, and humorous. That’s how Megan Coggins, our school counselor, would describe herself. Counseling […]

The Charter January 3, 2018 Archives, features

Sarah Head’s Many Faces

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By Mackenzie Waterman Sarah Head isn’t just a ES and teacher. She is a wife, mom, and farmer, as […]

The Charter January 3, 2018 Archives, features

Is Daylights Savings Time Really Saving Our Time?

By Elizabeth Tarsia Most of you guys might remember the day in November when some of your clocks […]

The Charter December 14, 2017 Archives, features

“I Love You Guys”

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  The I Love You Guys is a safety protocol that Alliance Charter Academy and many schools in […]

The Charter December 6, 2017 Archives, features

ACA Teacher Kidnapped — Decades Ago

By Victor Heimbigner, The Charter News Features – Kristen Kohl is an Alliance Charter Academy Spanish teacher and […]

The Charter December 1, 2017 Archives, features, news

Preschool at ACA

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By: Olivia Silbernagel, The Charter Features — Just like ACA, the ACA preschool is unique from other preschools. To […]

The Charter November 18, 2017 Archives, features, news

Respect the Vest

By: Taylor Younger, The Charter News Features —        What is autism? Autism is a condition that creates challenges, […]

The Charter November 18, 2017 Archives, features

Sultana Johansen

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By: Elizabeth Tarsia, The Charter Features         Sultana Johansen isn’t just your average office secretary; she has her […]

The Charter November 6, 2017 Archives, features

Chapin’s Changes

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By Kenzie Waterman, The Charter News Features You might have noticed the changes happening around school, and I’m […]

The Charter October 18, 2017 Archives, features, news
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