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Class Of 2025: Follow Students From 1st Grade To Graduation
OPB’s Class of 2025 reaches milestone: 20 students graduate from 11 Oregon high schools
OPB has followed a group of students since they were in kindergarten. This spring, most of them graduated from high school.

For these Class of 2025 students, graduation will come later — or not at all
A few students in OPB’s Class of 2025 are taking different paths to adulthood — paths that may not include a high school diploma.
Education
‘I’m not lost anymore’: Class of 2025 cousins find direction after high school
In today's "The Evergreen" episode, the story of two cousins in the Portland area: Austin started thinking of college early, and Anna struggled with post-graduation plans. He went to a high school with more resources, but she has found less support in her school.
Think Out Loud
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.