Historic funding to the Rural Energy for America program has helped fund more than three dozen rural solar projects in Oregon this year.
By Alex Baumhardt - Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon governor signals state funding to schools must improve following Portland teachers’ strike
Gov. Tina Kotek wants the Legislature to establish minimum teacher salaries and to create a new office focused on sharing school budget data with public.
Schools spent little of $19 million from state on substitute teacher training
Many substitute teachers across Oregon claim districts owe them for the time they spent taking mandatory training.
Climate change, drought, wildfires reduce value of private forestland in the West by billions
Oregon State University researchers said private timberland values have declined $11 billion due to the threat of drought and wildfires.
Oregon and Washington fruit packers vote to unionize fails
OREGON NEWS: Nearly 60% of the nearly 330 fruit packers of Mount Adams Fruit voted against joining a local of United Food and Commercial Workers.
Oregon’s first large-scale solar park and farm hinges on 50-year-old land use laws
A Willamette Valley farmer behind the state’s first “agrovoltaic” farm says critics cannot stop ‘an idea whose time has come.’
Hundreds of fruit packers in Washington and Oregon take union vote this week
Employees of three Mount Adams Fruit packing facilities in the Columbia River Gorge say they want safer conditions, better treatment and pay.
State lawmakers say they met Portland school demands for money as teachers strike
State Democratic senators said they gave schools $10.3 billion, a record high, during the spring session.
Oregon state officials urge Portland Public Schools, educators to reach a deal to end strike
On Tuesday, Portland teachers began striking for the first time in district history.
Student absenteeism high as Oregon districts attempt to normalize going to school every day
New state data shows nearly 40% of Oregon students missed 16 or more days of school during the 2022-23 school year.
