For the third year in the row, Minnesota lags the rest of the country in on-time graduation for students of color. Fewer than 60 percent of the state’s black and Hispanic students graduate in four ...

High schoolers in Oregon won't need to demonstrate basic competency in reading, writing or math in order to graduate for at least five more years because, according to education officials, such ...

To boost Oregon’s abysmal graduation rate, the state education department has an easy fix in mind: simply lower the standards for earning a diploma. As The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Betsy Hammond ...