Julia Silverman

In the small, pin-neat bedroom she shares with her two sons — one 14, one 4 — Carla Flores-Rubio stands still for just a moment, to soak in the rare quiet.

| A little-noticed provision of the landmark 2019 Oregon law that raised an extra $1 billion a year for schools was intended to give the state greater power to guide its poorest performing school districts.

Oregon’s near $800 million investment to get high school students to graduate ready for college or careers has dramatically expanded career-tech education but needs greater oversight, a new audit from the Secretary of State’s Office suggests.

Oregon's near $800 million investment to get high school students to graduate ready for college or careers has dramatically expanded career-tech

Nearly one in every three public schools in Oregon has landed on the state’s watch list of schools in which at least one group of students has fallen dangerously behind academically.

Seventeen non-tenure track faculty members at Portland State University received word Friday that their jobs will end in mid-June, as the university tries to plug an $18 million budget hole.

Staff in the Beaverton School District decided that the urgent need to catch middle school students up after the pandemic’s multitude of disruptions during their formative elementary school years merited a systemwide overhaul.

Literacy advocates are hoping that lawmakers will pour hundreds of millions of dollars more into early literacy efforts. But in an uncertain budget year, that’s no sure thing.

The Lake Oswego School District is warning employees that it will need to cut their jobs in order to plug an expected $12 million budget hole for the 2025-2026 school year.

The negotiations in the Gresham-Barlow, Tigard-Tualatin and Hillsboro school districts capped a busy bargaining fall in Portland.