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Editor’s note: Reporter Alex Baumhardt worked almost exclusively on this series for more than four months, starting in January. The project involved extensive research and interviews with more than 80 people, including state and local leaders, teachers, parents and students. She collected data and historical documents through records requests with state agencies and school districts, […]

The pandemic pushed teachers at Brooklyn Primary School in Baker City to overhaul how its teachers taught reading. When kids returned to the K-5 school in eastern Oregon, some of the second graders needed help sounding out the word “the.” Some of the third graders — who were in kindergarten when schools closed — struggled […]

The GAPS school board and district is amending its current policy on the instruction of controversial issues in the classroom. Read why.

The Early Literacy Success Initiative would pay for reading tutors, teacher training and require a shift to teaching methods

The Early Literacy Success Initiative would fund reading tutors, teacher training and require reading be taught based on decades of research

The change is intended to help combat the chronic staffing issues the school district has been facing.

ALBANY, Ore. – The Greater Albany Public Schools board of directors have selected Andy Gardner as the district’s next superintendent.

This comes after a new school board suddenly fired Goff in July.

An Oregon school leader who was recently fired says the people responsible for her ouster never spoke to her, and the district’s work on equity — which she