Education

Thanks to a $20 million gift from MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, a Native American college mentoring program that just launched in the Pacific Northwest will be scaling up to go nationwide.

All but one county in Oregon fail to meet state criteria for fully reopening schools to in-person learning this fall.

Counties will require a low COVID-19 test positivity rate to keep schools open.

The University of Oregon is working on a faster, cheaper COVID-19 test to boost the state's testing capacity. And you don't need to stick anything up your nose.

After 140 years of continuous operation, Chemawa Indian School plans to open remotely this fall, according to a plan shared with staff.

While Oregon’s large urban and suburban school districts wrestle with how to manage thousands of students across dozens of school buildings, it's a different dynamic in rural parts of the state. 

Oregon Early Learning Division has issued new draft guidelines for child care centers, after a combination of new rules, health concerns and related costs forced hundreds of care providers to close.

Citing the rise in COVID-19, unions representing more than 6,000 teachers and school staff in Southwest Washington are urging district officials to keep classes online this fall.

The state is expanding its mask requirement to include all children five and older, a step initially announced by Gov. Kate Brown at a press conference Wednesday morning. That includes schools.

The governing body of high school sports in Washington state has decided to move the football season to spring of 2021 because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.