Education

The State Board of Education approved a temporary rule, banning the Confederate flag, swastika and noose from the state's public schools.

The first Native American woman elected to the Washington State House of Representatives says she is drafting legislation to retire Indigenous-themed mascots and team names at public schools.

Oregon’s oldest university is taking over the region’s oldest arts college in a move designed to strengthen both schools, at a time of intense difficulty and financial strain for higher education institutions.

Since March, Oregon families have seen COVID-19 force school online. Now wildfires are disrupting the start of a very different new school year. But thousands of Oregon students are making the choice to start - and stay - online. They're signing up for new online academies, a trend that could change education in the state.

Some school districts, as well as colleges and universities, throughout Oregon are closing and canceling in-person and online classes due to wildfires causing evacuations and hazardous air quality and driving conditions.

The income range from million-dollar homes in Bend to rural poverty in parts of La Pine makes equitable distance learning a challenge for the Oregon largest school district east of the Cascades.

Oregon's COVID-19 metrics make it easier to teach grades K-3 than older students. That doesn't mean teachers are eager to do it.

It was common through the 1800s for American school children to attend a one-room schoolhouse. In 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, children in the Swanson family in rural north Olympia will attend a one-garage schoolhouse.

Convalescent plasma may confer passive immunity to the recipient, but scientists don't know for sure whether it will work with the novel coronavirus.

Two Oregon colleges have announced plans to start the fall online, in an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19.