Latest reporting from the Education desk.
Latest reporting from the Education desk.
Latest reporting from the Education desk.
Education
Classified workers at Oregon's seven public universities, including Western Oregon University near Salem, reached a tentative four-year contract deal late Sunday, Sept. 27, averting a strike set to begin hours later on the first day of fall term.
Education
Classified workers at Oregon's seven public universities, including Western Oregon University near Salem, reached a tentative four-year contract deal late Sunday, Sept. 27, averting a strike set to begin hours later on the first day of fall term.
Education
Classified workers at Oregon's seven public universities, including Western Oregon University near Salem, reached a tentative four-year contract deal late Sunday, Sept. 27, averting a strike set to begin hours later on the first day of fall term.
Education
Willamette University announced two new non-competitive scholarships that will cover tuition for Oregon students from families earning $80,000 or less, starting with fall 2027 enrollment at its Salem campus and Portland's Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Education
Salem-Keizer Public Schools bus drivers ran dry-run routes on Aug. 27 ahead of the first day of school, which begins Sept. 8 for sixth graders and high school freshmen and Sept. 9 for most other students.
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Following Dolly Parton's death on Aug. 25, Willamette University is remembering the country star's $40,000 donation to its athletics program after a 1990 Oregon State Fair concert, a gift that funded the Sparks Center weight room expansion.
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Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Education launched "Friends for Life," the state's first youth-focused overdose prevention campaign, offering Salem-area schools and families free multilingual resources on fentanyl awareness and naloxone as youth overdose deaths decline.
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Willamette University faculty and students partnered with Salem and Marion County over summer 2026 to create the county's first heat map, collecting data that will guide tree planting and cooling resources under the city's Climate Action Plan.
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Salem-Keizer Public Schools is spending $11 million to put a new science-of-reading curriculum in all 42 elementary schools this fall, with 330 teachers trained this week ahead of the Sept. 9 start.
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Chemeketa Community College won a competitive NSF grant to embed authentic scientific research into introductory STEM courses, removing barriers for its largely Pell-eligible, first-generation student body.
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Willamette University will be classified as a National University in U.S. News & World Report's fall 2026 rankings, the only school promoted from the liberal arts college category this cycle, reflecting 15 years of expansion under President Steve Thorsett.
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Veteran journalist Steve Law's new book documents how Salem's Capital Journal editor George Putnam and reporter Harry Crain were among fewer than a dozen Oregon newspapers that openly challenged the KKK in the 1920s, when the state had the nation's second-highest Klan membership rate.
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OSU Extension's 4-H Junior Master Gardener program delivered free plant-science and nutrition lessons to six classrooms at Highland Elementary in Salem and Kennedy Elementary in Keizer during fall 2025, at the request of Marion County commissioners.
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South Salem senior Jolee McMahan and McKay junior Alex Diaz, Salem-Keizer's new student advisors, say mental health and technology are the top concerns they'll bring to the school board during a year of $23 million in budget cuts and looming school closures.
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Salem-Keizer Public Schools is using $1 million in state funding for an elementary summer school focused on reading, targeting a district where only one in four third graders reads at grade level.
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