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Education Department says it’s releasing more than $5 billion in frozen grants
The grants fund a wide range of education programs, including migrant education, services for English language learners and adult education.

President Trump takes aim at college sports with a new executive order
The order aims to ban "pay-for-play" NIL deals, mandates scholarships for women's and Olympic sports and threatens to withhold funds from schools who don't comply. But its legality is in question.

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New law to bring climate education to classrooms across Oregon
Oregon has passed a new law requiring climate change to be taught across core K-12 subjects.

‘These are big bills’: Oregon’s student loan watchdog logs record high complaints
Oregon’s student loan ombudsman talks recent changes to federal policy

Washington’s outdoor school programs reel from state funding cuts
Grants that help pay for fifth- and sixth-grade students to attend were eliminated in the latest budget.

Oregon law schools to receive funding for criminal defense clinics
There are currently defense clinics at Willamette University in Salem, Lewis & Clark College in Portland, and the University of Oregon in both Portland and Eugene.

What the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will change for students, schools and colleges
School vouchers are going national and the federal student loan system is getting an overhaul. Here's what to know.
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Trump budget threatens college access for Oregon’s parenting students
A federal grant that helps student parents pay for child care is on the chopping block. The grant’s elimination would make it even harder for the one in five Oregon undergraduate students who are parents to obtain a degree.

Supreme Court says Trump’s efforts to close the Education Department can continue
The Trump administration had appealed a decision that had directed it to stop gutting the U.S. Education Department and to reinstate many of the workers the government had laid off.

24 states sue Trump admin to unfreeze more than $6 billion in education grants
The lawsuit comes two weeks after the Trump administration first notified states it was withholding previously approved funds for migrant education, before- and after- school programs and more.