The lawsuit contends PPS discriminated against a white Glencoe Elementary School family twice over: first by awarding additional staff to other schools based in part on race, and then by barring them from compensating for the staffing loss through fundraising.

The seven-person Portland School Board on Tuesday night became the first in the state to authorize paying themselves monthly stipends.

The agreement will formalize a broader, long-term partnership with the hopes of encouraging more students to utilize the PCC-PSU pipeline.

A Portland Public Schools staff memo on required instructional time for its students includes a future consideration for the Portland School Board sure to ruffle some feathers.

This fall, phones went out of sight at Portland Public Schools buildings. And then something unexpected happened.

Tucked away in a quarterly report by the Citizens Bond Accountability Committee to go before the Portland School Board on Oct. 14 is a damning bullet point.

PPS contracted with a Tennessee-based company it hopes will raise fill rates at a time when student need is steadily rising.

Parent advocates under the group Safe Structures PPS say the district’s latest updates on their seismic retrofit efforts seem to deviate from a May resolution that asked for the riskiest buildings in PPS's portfolio to be first in line for improvements.

County commissioners currently have little role in Preschool for All’s implementation. They want that to change.

Following disappointing fundraising numbers from The Fund for PPS's first year, its leaders and advocates for the new, more equitable fundraising model say dwelling on the past is the wrong strategy.