The Joseph School District strives to maintain a coordinated K-12 program to improve student achievement and to successfully prepare students to function effectively in a rapidly changing world and for the futures they choose to pursue. The district will work with staff, parents and community members through 21st Century Schools Councils, local school committees and advisory committees to develop district goals. Goals will be adopted by the Board consistent with the goals adopted by the State Board of Education. Goals will be reviewed annually and revised as needed.
Wallowa County Education Service District, officially known as Region #18 Education Service District, serves approximately 1,000 students in four school districts over an area of about 3,500 square miles. Home school and private school students are also served. The ESD is governed by a locally elected Board of Education. Serving the student population and school districts of the region are dedicated specialists, enthusiastic teachers, and loyal classified employees. The District takes great pride in the quality and scope of its education and support service programs for students and school districts, where excellence is expected.
The Troy School District believes that there is an urgent necessity to provide our children the best education possible. We believe that schools are cooperative ventures built by continuous hard work, planning, and support of the community. The Troy School District Strives to: provide an opportunity for each child to learn and achieve the maximum growth possible in the school environment, within the constraints placed on the district; encourage in every child a desire to learn, to think clearly, to gain useful general knowledge, and to develop more extensive abilities in areas of special interest; recognize the child's need to understand and respect himself/herself and others, and to develop into a productive and responsible member to society; promote the teaching and practicing of democratic ideals and high moral standards our school; provide and maintain a school plant that will meet the needs of students, the school program, and the community; select and develop teaching and non-teaching personnel who consistently demonstrate a sincere interest, not only in the community, the district, and the school, but most importantly in the individual student and who exhibit respect for that responsibility; remain in constant and open communication with all segments of the school community, remembering that sound public relations are important to the success of any educational program.
The Wallowa School District, in recognition of its educational responsibilities, will develop goals for guiding the instructional program. These goals will be developed by staff, parents and the community through 21st Century Schools committees, local school committees and advisory committees in the decision-making and goal-setting process. Goals will be reviewed periodically and, where desirable, modified. The district strives to assist each student to develop: 1. The ability to reason and apply knowledge; 2. The basic skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening, visual and computation; 3. Strong, healthy bodies and emotional well-being; 4. A desire for lifelong learning; 5. Knowledge and understanding of the theory and practice of how our democratic society functions; 6. Respect for the dignity, the rights and worth of all individuals; 7. Skills, experience and positive attitudes and the capacity to adapt to changing conditions; 8. Attitudes and behavior necessary to develop and preserve our environment; 9. The ability to live rewarding and satisfying lives and to identify and cultivate moral and ethical values. In the Wallowa School District we believe it is important that students are not treated as "assembly line products" or objects to be manipulated. Each student shall be considered an individual. The student's welfare shall come first in weighing all decisions. We believe that the student is the first concern of the School district.