Teachers

Portland State University’s partnership program with Metzger Elementary School essentially doubled its enrollment in its second year.

In the last month, the Trump administration withheld Congressionally approved federal education grants, released a small portion, then released all of the money after all.

PSU says it has put a world languages and literatures professor on leave, in response to ‘absolutely unacceptable’ video.

A week after Harvard University refused to comply with Trump administration demands, the presidents of Lewis & Clark College, Willamette University and Reed College are denouncing the cascade of federal actions that have thrown higher education institutions nationwide into financial uncertainty.

Top officials in Oregon are refusing to sign off on a demand from the U.S. Department of Education that requires states to abandon policies related to diversity, equity and inclusion if they want to keep receiving federal funding for schools.

The investigation comes days after OPB published an investigation into decades-old claims of sexual abuse against Evans, all from his time as a teacher at St. Helens High School in the 1980s.

In interviews with OPB, former St. Helens High School students say teachers have crossed lines for decades. A teacher who allegedly had a sexual relationship with a student in the 1980s later represented state agencies responsible for protecting Oregon’s children and holding accountable those who abuse them.

Students and families had called for Stockwell to resign for weeks, for what they say was a failure to respond to allegations of sexual abuse committed by teachers.

OPB asks the Class of 2025's teachers what changes they'd like to see in education.

Oregon schools showed slow but steady increases in statewide graduation rates year after year leading up to the pandemic. Now, the rate hovers around 81%.