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The team clinched first place at the annual Oregon Marine Advanced Technology Education Remotely Operated Vehicle competition in Newport earlier this month and has qualified to compete in the World Championship next month.

Ethan Chessin, a teacher in the Camas School District, will likely keep his job despite the district’s plan to cut the equivalent of 36 full-time teaching positions in the 2025–26 school year, thanks to his seniority.

Declining birth rates and rising inflation, along with state and federal funding uncertainties, remain ongoing barriers as Oregon school districts balance their budgets for next year.

Over 27 years, Oregon students working with Schnitzer Cares: Student Grantmaking have given out over $5 million to more than 560 nonprofit organizations and school programs.

The letter, sent to school leaders across the nation late last week, threatens to withhold federal funding from schools for “any violation” of civil rights law — including DEI programs that “advantage one race over another.”

Washington state lawmakers are considering bills to revise the parents’ rights law. They have until the end of next month to finalize proposed changes, some of which would eliminate rights for parents to access their kids’ school-based medical records.

Students and families had called for Stockwell to resign for weeks, for what they say was a failure to respond to allegations of sexual abuse committed by teachers.

The Seattle branch of the department’s Office for Civil Rights launched the investigation after a transgender girl played in a high school girls’ basketball game last month. This comes weeks after Trump issued an executive order barring transgender girls and women from competing in women’s sports.

Opponents worried that the resolution would have put an ‘unnecessary target’ on the district’s back and jeopardized federal funding.

A 2023 law barring sale of fluorescent bulbs has schools wrestling with flickering lights – and major costs.