News It’s not every day a special-interest group raises nearly $800,000 to wage a campaign to ban something that’s already illegal.  But that’s the situation with a proposed 2012 initiative ca   More

News Members of the Portland School Board voted 5-2 last night to approve PPS's resolution on high schools. But during almost three hours of testimony that ended about 11:30 pm, talk kept coming back to Portland Public Schools' longstanding policy of letting students transfer to different neighborhood schools. The transfer policy was held out as a crucial component of PPS's "school choice" ethos, ...   More