These civil rights laws extend to all education programs and facilities that receive federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education, including: State education agencies, Elementary and secondary school systems, Colleges and universities,
Columbia County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,351. The county seat is St. Helens. It was named for the Columbia River, which forms its eastern and northern borders. Columbia County is included in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Portland metropolitan area.
Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 006798. St. Helens is a Columbia River town located eighty-six river miles from the Pacific Ocean. The Columbia County seat since 1857, the city is at the confluence of the river and Multnomah Channel, less than three hundred yards from the northern tip of Sauvie Island.