Portland School Board Leaders Want To Try A New Style of Governance
Eddie Wang and Michelle DePass want a new School Board to prioritize the bigger picture. But accountability means different things to different members.
Portland School Board Authorizes District to Start Due Diligence on Center for Black Student Excellence
The Portland School Board on Tuesday night unanimously voted to execute a $16 million purchase and sale agreement for a building for the Center for Black Student Excellence, about five years after voters first approved its creation in 2020.
Portland Public Schools Mulls Seismic Retrofits Amid Plan for Consolidations
A district-commissioned report to assess seismic risk at each of its buildings does not immediately make clear what structures’ collapses would be most devastating during an earthquake.
At Faubion PK-8, Parent Outcry Brought a Classroom Back
The fight has raised larger questions about how administrators came to their decision to shut down the classroom and reignited tensions around class sizes in the district.
Portland Public Schools Proposes Spending $16 Million on Center for Black Student Excellence
The district has said it will start due diligence on the property, including how the building will operate, after an initial approval of the purchase and sale agreement.
County Dodges Questions Whether It Asked Ex-Preschool for All Director to Cut Ties With Her School
Tensions between Multnomah County and its former Preschool for All director rage on.
Portland Public Schools Weighs Artificial Intelligence Policy
Portland Public Schools folded some guidance on artificial intelligence into its district technology policy for students and staff over the summer.
Trump Administration Targets Oregon Sex-Ed Program Over Contents on Gender Identity
The Trump administration is threatening funding to an Oregon sex-ed program over its curricula's inclusion of "gender ideology."
Inconsistencies Continue to Emerge in Case of Ex-Preschool for All Director
A hiring letter raises new questions about how the county handled its ex-Preschool for All director’s conflict of interest.
Portland Public Schools Broaches Topic of Consolidation
PPS Superintendent Dr. Kimberlee Armstrong also confirmed she plans to have a conversation about redrawing Jefferson High School’s boundaries within the academic year.