COMMENTARY | You can help get the UP NOW campaign on the November ballot Educators — from early childhood to college faculty — and economists support free, universally available, high-quality, play-based preschool for every child whose family wishes to en ...
23 Jun 2020 - Suzanne Cohen and Angie Garcia and Mary King
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
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...
Election Day has sadly become a reminder to us all that we are a deeply divided country that doesn’t agree on much. We differ on Democrats vs. Republicans, trickle-down economics vs. a more redistributive approach, a more active and aggressive foreign pol ...
20 Nov 2014 - M. Nels Johnson
The latest Street Roots reports that “when legislators convene in Salem for the Legislature’s month-long session, scheduled to begin Feb. 3, they are likely to focus on economic development, job growth, continuing to fund and reform education, and pass le ...
15 Jan 2014 - SR editorial board