Rob Manning
Oregon Public BroadcastingRob Manning is a JPR content partner from Oregon Public Broadcasting. Rob has reported extensively on Oregon schools and universities as OPB's education reporter and is now a news editor.
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The Portland public district confirmed Sunday night that students would not be in classes Monday due to the ongoing teachers strike, and a failure to reach a contract over the weekend. -
Local officials cautioned Oregonians to avoid lighting fires and to find ways to stay cool as temperatures spike this week. -
Oregon school districts and community organizations are hearing from the head of the state education department, that they shouldn’t plan on money from the state for summer programs this year. -
A 110-page investigative report documents a hostile work environment experienced by a female attorney of color in the agency's new paid family leave program. -
Senate Bill 1045 would allow the Oregon Department of Education to withhold state funding, or direct how money is spent, in districts that ran afoul of state regulations. -
The West Linn-Wilsonville School District is updating its reading curriculum at the same time lawmakers are looking to enact new state literacy guidance. -
Fuel prices in Oregon spiked 50 cents per gallon over the last week — the sharpest spike of any state in the country. -
Test scores fell by 9 percentage points at the state level — and even more sharply at some large districts — in the first set of statewide test results in three years.
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Oregon's unemployment rate has stopped falling and jobs have recovered to pre-pandemic numbers. And federally-funded temporary employees are leaving the employment department. -
New federal report recounts use of Indian boarding schools to subjugate Native communities and culture, including at an Oregon school. -
Commissioner Val Hoyle's decision to run for Congress left an open seat atop the state's Bureau of Labor and Industries. -
The state health agency held its first COVID briefing since early March, in the wake of a federal court ruling rescinding mask requirements on planes, trains and buses.
