2020 in review: The 8 Oregon education stories that defined the year
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Djuna Mains, 7 and Jada Lampton, 7 hug at a kid-centered gathering and march for Black lives at Sunnyside School Park in Portland on August 25, 2020.Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian
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Think of any major event that shook the state in 2020 and its impacts on education were immense.
Protests against systemic racism and police brutality led students to organize demonstrations, sometimes in the face of intense pushback from their own communities. And voters weighed in on education measures across the state, from construction bonds to funding for teachers.