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Sami Edge

@sami_edge

Higher ed & politics reporter @Oregonian. Email me: [email protected] Previously: @IdahoEdNews, @thenewmexican, @dailyemerald

 Portland, OR
Joined February 2013
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Breaking from @maxoregonian: Appeals court allows Trump to deploy National Guard in Portland oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10…
Appeals court sides with Trump on troop deployment to Portland ICE building

Appeals court sides with Trump on troop deployment to Portland ICE building

Dissenting judge in 2-1 ruling urges review by larger contingent of 9th Circuit court.

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Wow! Truly honored to make the list for my story about declining college enrollment among young men in rural Oregon.
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One of my favorite @The74 perennials: the annual education journalism jealousy list. The stories we wish we'd written. And cats. Lots of cats. the74million.org/article/the…

The Jealousy List: 16 Education Articles We Wish We Had Written in 2024

The 74 staff’s annual compilation of education stories we felt were the most impactful over the last year.

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"Readers will finish the piece with a better understanding of social trends in parts of Oregon that might otherwise be overlooked, but they also gain a sense of the generational ambivalence toward higher education that has taken hold far beyond the Pacific Northwest."
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Read it here: oregonlive.com/education/202…
In rural Oregon, boys are not choosing college. That’s widening the urban-rural divide

In rural Oregon, boys are not choosing college. That’s widening the urban-rural divide

In 2019, just 35% of Oregon’s rural male students went straight to college. That rate was even lower among low-income rural boys and boys of color.

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Four-term Democratic state lawmaker Janelle Bynum defeated Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer in the highly contested 5th Congressional District race. oregonlive.com/politics/2024…
Janelle Bynum wins race for Congress, flipping U.S. House seat from GOP to Democratic control

Janelle Bynum wins race for Congress, flipping U.S. House seat from GOP to Democratic control

Bynum, a lawmaker and small business owner, will be Oregon's first Black representative in Congress.

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The Oregonian calls U.S. House Dist. 5 for Janelle S Bynum (D).
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The Oregonian calls Wash. U.S. House Dist. 3 for Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D).
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If you're waiting on pins and needles for the result of the @bynum4thewin v. @RepLCD race... keep waiting. The 5:30 update has the count holding at 47.6% Bynum, 45.2% LCD and lots of ballots left to be counted. #orpol oregonlive.com/politics/2024…
Oregon’s most closely watched race for Congress is too close to call

Oregon’s most closely watched race for Congress is too close to call

National parties have dumped tons of money and firepower into the race as they vie for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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The best education journalism of the week is @sami_edge's deep dive into why rural men are skipping out on college. See more in the newsletter. kappanonline.org/russo-canne…
Canned Sandy Hook coverage, a valedictorian dropout, & a personal history of school punishment:...

Canned Sandy Hook coverage, a valedictorian dropout, & a personal history of school punishment:...

Cookie-cutter Sandy Hook coverage. When even the valedictorian isn’t going to college. Dismal news in the annual KIDS COUNT report. A former ed reporter’s family history with corporal punishment. A...

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Please read the finale of our series on college-going, written by the brilliant @jrlsilverman!
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It is fitting that our last story in our series on the decline in Oregon students choosing to go straight to college from high school ran today in @Oregonian, on the final day of this 2023-2024 school year, w/ stunning photos by @bethnakamura. 🧵 oregonlive.com/education/202…
Once, Oregon’s Black students went to college at higher rates than their white classmates. Not...

Once, Oregon’s Black students went to college at higher rates than their white classmates. Not...

Oregon has an established and growing network of programs to help Black teens find their way to higher education, but there are powerful outside forces at work, including spiraling college costs. Two...

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ICYMI, last Sunday we published a story about Lost River high, a tiny 1A school that does a remarkable job of helping students launch into higher ed. oregonlive.com/education/202…
Cultivating college-going: A low-income rural school in Oregon shines at propelling graduates into...

Cultivating college-going: A low-income rural school in Oregon shines at propelling graduates into...

Lost River Junior/Senior High, a tiny school south of Klamath Falls, routinely sends two-thirds of its graduating seniors onto postsecondary education.

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Here are some of its secrets: - All seniors apply to community college as a back up plan - Every day of senior year includes 50 minutes of class with a school counselor - Seniors prep binders full of resumes, transcripts, letters of rec they'll need for adulting
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The partnership between @KlamathCC and Lost River High School is a model for communities across the state. Well done! oregonlive.com/education/202…
Cultivating college-going: A low-income rural school in Oregon shines at propelling graduates into...

Cultivating college-going: A low-income rural school in Oregon shines at propelling graduates into...

Lost River Junior/Senior High, a tiny school south of Klamath Falls, routinely sends two-thirds of its graduating seniors onto postsecondary education.

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Incredible reporting from @sami_edge and beautiful photos by @bethnakamura over the weekend on this series w/ @jrlsilverman about Oregon's struggles getting kids to college. Here, an inspiring look at the unique success of a school in tiny Lost River: oregonlive.com/education/202…
Cultivating college-going: A low-income rural school in Oregon shines at propelling graduates into...

Cultivating college-going: A low-income rural school in Oregon shines at propelling graduates into...

Lost River Junior/Senior High, a tiny school south of Klamath Falls, routinely sends two-thirds of its graduating seniors onto postsecondary education.

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I'm so happy to finally unveil a series of stories I've been chipping away at for the last six months + amazing photography by @bethnakamura. Oregon high school graduates are opting out of higher ed. That's a problem for equity and the economy. oregonlive.com/education/202…
Oregon’s college-going rates have fallen, risking equity, the state economy

Oregon’s college-going rates have fallen, risking equity, the state economy

Just 56% of graduates in the class of 2021 entered college shortly after high school, a nearly 10 percentage point drop over the last decade.

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Today I bring you dispatches from rural Oregon, where another group has emerged as a cause for concern: boys. Only 1/3 of rural boys went straight to college in 2019 and that rate was even lower for low-income, Latino and Indigenous graduates. oregonlive.com/education/202…
In rural Oregon, boys are not choosing college. That’s widening the urban-rural divide

In rural Oregon, boys are not choosing college. That’s widening the urban-rural divide

In 2019, just 35% of Oregon’s rural male students went straight to college. That rate was even lower among low-income rural boys and boys of color.

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Stay tuned for a solutions story tomorrow and more stories to come next week! Thanks always to @EdWriters for a grant that allowed me to travel the state to talk to wonderful students I otherwise wouldn't have met!
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Today is Day 2 of our series on declining college enrollment in OR. @sami_edge passed the baton to me to spotlight Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students, whose college going rate has declined the most of any demographic group in the last 12 years: oregonlive.com/education/202…
For Oregon’s Pacific Islander students, college can feel far from possible

For Oregon’s Pacific Islander students, college can feel far from possible

Amid financial scarcity, many Pacific Islander students have felt pressed to forgo college to enter the workforce.

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