Education

Public school employees in Oregon are required to show proof of vaccination or a valid exemption.

Recent hot weather and Oregon’s old school buildings led to an uncomfortable start to the year in many places. Wildfire smoke can add to the discomfort. Here's a look at how schools are responding.

Unpaid internships are facing new scrutiny from colleges, state lawmakers and student activists.

Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration to try and halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of Americans.

Last week, a judge ruled the Newberg School District’s ban on political symbols was unconstitutional. But the ban — and school board actions that followed — changed the district.

OIT joins four other public universities in Oregon that have made the same decision regarding tuition.

A Yamhill County Circuit Court judge has ruled that a policy banning certain symbols from being displayed in Newberg schools is unconstitutional, after a case was filed last year by a Newberg teacher against the school district and four members of the school board.

When President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive student loan debt, many borrowers who kept making payments during the pandemic wondered if they’d made the right choice.

Test scores fell by 9 percentage points at the state level — and even more sharply at some large districts — in the first set of statewide test results in three years.

Southern Oregon University has a challenging financial path ahead as it deals with declining enrollment. SOU president Rick Bailey told faculty and staff on Tuesday morning that the university is facing a nearly $5 million deficit in the coming year.