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Aug. 18, 2025 – State financial woes have sidetracked the effort to open a recovery high school for students battling addiction. But organizers say they’re not giving up. Mike and Marianne Dyer have been leading the effort to open the school since 2022. Organizers thought they had a shot to open this fall, The Dyers and their backers — including a nonprofit group called Friends of Lane County Recovery Schools — thought they still had a shot at the single grant. They asked the state in their application for $3.8 million to fund the school for three years.
They finished second in the scoring system the state used to rate the applications. But it didn’t matter: None of the applications — not even the one that scored highest — was funded.
