The agonizingly slow trajectory of Oregon students’ academic recovery from pandemic disruptions continued for a third straight year in 2024, dashing hopes that the state’s students would finally...

In a wild governor’s race, an independent candidate is siphoning Democratic votes and a billionaire Nike co-founder is pouring in money — giving an anti-abortion Republican a path to victory.

Multnomah County courts also referred Rubio’s unpaid parking tickets to a collection agency at least 100 times, records reviewed by The Oregonian/OregonLive show.

Oregon students’ performance on reading, writing and math tests remains stuck at dismal post-pandemic lows, despite billions of state and federal dollars aimed at helping them recover in the two...

Three incumbents on the Newberg school board lost their seats in Tuesday’s election, the end of an era in a district that’s attracted national attention since 2021.

The state’s elementary and middle school students remain an average of about two-thirds of a year behind in reading compared to pre-pandemic levels and three-fourths of a year behind in math. That’s...

A final sticking point – an additional $4 million in raises – was resolved in favor of teachers.

A public-health expert discusses breakthrough infections, mask and vaccine mandates, and what the Delta variant means for Americans.

The three states are all recent Democratic strongholds with similar approaches to pandemic management.

Oregon’s medical autonomy laws say once a child turns 15, all health care decisions are theirs to make. To the mother of a son lost to fentanyl poisoning last August, that doesn't make sense, given...

The longer that the strike has dragged on, the more worried special education families say they’ve gotten, even as reforms that could impact their children’s experience are part of the conversation.

Odds that students will return to public schools in Portland any time soon appeared to dim Monday, though representatives of striking teachers and district administration continue daily negotiations.

The Portland Association of Teachers immediately pushes back.

Some neighborhood residents are taking things into their own hands.

A national education research organization says Oregon deserves a failing grade for the report cards on individual schools’ performance that it releases every fall, which the group says mask just how...

When Portland Public Schools’ buildings reopened in September, hundreds of students who should have been there never came back.

After nearly doubling its newsroom’s size in the past five years, Oregon Public Broadcasting is ready to rumble.

Portland Public Schools teachers have spurned a last-ditch offer from the district, launching a strike starting Wednesday that will shutter all 81 schools.

Making the case for post-pandemic optimism, in a skittish Oregon

Students from the private Catlin Gabel School were stuck in a school bus for six hours on Wednesday and finally made it home, but not before they had a chilly, moonlit walk along the highway and...

Use of the proof-of-vaccination card will be voluntary and optional, and there are no plans for a statewide vaccine passport requirement, officials say.

Brain research that was brought to light more than 20 years ago – but is now getting increased attention in the wake of pandemic disruptions -- suggests schools’ failure to teach children to read...

Weed, Jell-O shots, and more.

New data from the Oregon Department of Education shows that the state’s 197 public school districts are educating about 2,500 fewer students now than they were in the 2022-2023 academic year and...

Portland Public Schools is hitting the pause button on a proposal to discontinue accelerated middle school math classes, saying the plan—intended to improve educational equity and boost math master...

In Multnomah County, five branches in underserved communities will be the first to reopen, but there's no date set yet.

After months of preparation covering the ideas, arcana and interpretations of the U.S. Constitution, the We the People national civics trophy came home to Grant High..

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