Harmony Academy in Lake Oswego will help students stay clean and sober together On Sept. 3, Harmony Academy will open its doors to any high school student in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse in Portland’s tri-county area. Enrollment at Oregon’s first ...
30 Aug 2019 - Emily Green
Oregon's House speaker reflects on the session and what she sees as wins for housing, education and – yes – the environment The smoke is still clearing from the 80th Oregon State Legislative Assembly, but if there were any open wounds left from its c ...
12 Jul 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
DIRECTOR’S DESK | As teachers demanded stability for Oregon’s youths, GOP senators refused to make the investment Wednesday was a day of contrasting walkouts. Brightly visible in red T-shirts, students and teachers across the state walked out into the sun ...
10 May 2019 - Kaia Sand
From hunger and homelessness to debt-burdened drop-outs, Sara Goldrick-Rab sees the hope of college fading from view for middle America Scholar-activist Sara Goldrick-Rab often reflects on an eye-opening day after class when a student came to her and said ...
26 Apr 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
A selection of letters from the Houselessness Cohort at Sunnyside Environmental School in Portland This winter, a group of students from Sunnyside Environmental School formed a Houselessness Cohort to better understand the issue of homelessness. Working w ...
29 Mar 2019 - Street Roots
Youths are taught that the dynamics of a coercive relationship emerge slowly after a power imbalance is established Many youths caught up in the deceptive world of sex trafficking might not even realize it, said Emmy Ritter, executive director of Raphael ...
15 Mar 2019 - Libby Dowsett
Oregon lawmakers push for guidelines on disclosing possible health risks from electromagnetic radiation in schools It’s everywhere. The electrosmog of radiofrequencies, electromagnetic radiation and all the Wi-Fi glory that keeps our world humming along. ...
8 Feb 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
COMMENTARY | Homeless students deserve the same education as their peers Improving educational outcomes for all of Oregon’s students is urgent business. That’s why it was so important to me to add a provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act, passed by ...
8 Feb 2019 - Ron Wyden
COMMENTARY | They should have the knowledge, power and resources to make healthy decisions about their bodies What do you think of when you hear “sex ed”? Your own sex education classes? A condom demonstration? Maybe a movie scene with an uncomfortable gy ...
30 Nov 2018 - Hannah Sokoloff...
Beaverton’s Nina Fekaris talks about the complicated overlap of housing, health care and education in Oregon’s rural communities According to Oregon Health & Science University’s Office of Rural Health, Oregon has 53 service areas in 24 counties where ...
19 Jan 2018 - Sarah Hansell