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After more than a year of bargaining with the university, faculty voted to strike.

Oregon leaders originally asked to waive all standardized tests. Testing will only be required in one or two subjects.

If approved, Oregon students would only be tested in one or two subjects.

鈥淭oday, Oregon officially returns to in-person instruction, just one year after we closed school buildings,鈥� Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Monday in a Facebook Live event.

Since school doors closed almost a year ago, there鈥檚 been great concern over how this time would impact students mentally and socially. Addressing student well-being is a big reason parents and Gov. Kate Brown are pushing for Oregon schools to reopen as soon as possible.

Gov. Kate Brown has told school districts to return to either fully in-person or hybrid learning, with classroom sessions to resume this month for lower grades.

Back when school was in person, eighth-grader Josh Secrett was always tired. Now, away from the bias he sometimes encountered in classrooms, he says, "I'm more energized. I want to do more things."

As Gov. Brown鈥檚 Feb. 15 goal date to get students back in classrooms arrives, families are deciding where to end the school year: at home or in school.

The new guidance includes mostly small changes, with one big one.

Schools around Oregon are planning to welcome students back on campus this fall, despite alarming increases in COVID-19 cases and the news that big districts in other states are already planning a virtual start to the academic year.

Employees at schools and colleges still haven't received the weekly $600 and unemployment benefits included in Oregon's Work Share program.

It will be up to individual schools to figure out whether teaching will happen on-site, through distance learning, or a hybrid of the two.