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2 Oregon high school teams will compete in national hospitality competition
Students from Crook County and the Salem-Keizer School District will put their cooking and restaurant management skills to the test next month at the National ProStart Invitational in Baltimore.

Scoring correction makes 2 Oregon high schools co-champions of national civics contest
Portland’s Lincoln High School joined Salem’s Sprague High in first place in last week’s U.S. Constitution competition after the national civics organization sponsoring it acknowledged scoring errors.
Law and Justice
Oregon DHS opens sexual abuse investigation into former spokesman Gene Evans
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.
Sports
Even as pickleball sees massive growth, racquetball remains popular with younger generation of players
This week, Portland is the host city for a national high school tournament in a sport you may not even know local high school athletes still participate in: racquetball. Oregon is one of two remaining hubs for the sport natinally.

Education
Oregon graduation rate continues COVID-era trend: Little improvement
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%.

Hudson’s Bay high schoolers rally over teacher sexual misconduct allegations
Students from Hudson’s Bay High School walked out of class on Monday and marched to the Vancouver Public Schools headquarters, where they protested the district’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations against a teacher.
Think Out Loud
Ashland teacher chosen for Harvard program to help develop high school curriculum about Ukraine
AP U.S. History teacher Paul Huard joins us with more details on the project and why it’s important for American students to learn about Ukraine.

Education
New report projects number of Oregon high school graduates will decline almost 20% by 2041
A new national report finds a big demographic change is coming: a drop in the number of high school graduates in Oregon and across the country.

Another St. Helens teacher was on leave months before sex abuse arrests, officials say
The districts employees on administrative leave are mostly from St. Helens High School, but there are others from middle and elementary schools.
Student athletes and coaches for David Douglas High School football team face racist chants and slurs
The student athletes and coaches for David Douglas High School’s Football team in Portland say four out of the five weeks of this season, they’ve faced racist chants and slurs during away games.